Adam Sherer
Vice President - Market Risk Officer @Nuveen, a TIAA company
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President - Market Risk Officer @Nuveen, a TIAA company
Board & Committee Leadership: Lead investment-risk reporting for the Nuveen’s 40-Act fund complex. Deliver integrated risk and performance narratives to Fund Boards,synthesizing VaR, tracking error, beta, factor exposures, and key drivers. Substantially increased the focus and discussion on risk management during Boardmeetings.• Derivatives Risk Management: Designed and lead Nuveen’s firm-wide derivatives risk program across 200+ funds; serve as Board-appointed Derivatives Risk Manager and Chair the Derivatives Risk Management Committee, lead ongoing compliance, limit monitoring, back-testing, stress testing, and Board reporting under SEC Rule 18f-4.• Liquidity Risk Management: Played a major role in designing Nuveen’s Liquidity Risk Management Program under SEC Rule 22e-4; remain an active member of theinternal Liquidity Risk Management Committee overseeing its operation, methodologies, governance cadence, and escalation processes.• UCITS & Global Regulatory Oversight: Serve as primary internal risk contact for Nuveen’s UCITS fund complex; partner with external ManCo to oversee investmentand derivatives risk, liquidity stress testing, and compliance with CBI and ESMA regulatory requirements. Present directly to the UCITS Board.• Cross-functional Risk Partnership: Represent Investment Risk on multiple internal committees; strengthen governance through collaboration with Investments, Compliance/Legal, Fund Accounting, and Performance teams.• Risk Analytics & Reporting: Built standardized dashboards for VaR, TE decomposition, factor heatmaps, and scenario/stress results using Bloomberg, FactSet, and internal data systems; improved timeliness and clarity of managementinformation for PMs and senior leadership.• Manager Due Diligence: Conduct qualitative and quantitative due diligence on internal and external managers; assess derivatives use, liquidity profiles, and riskprocess quality to inform oversight and mandate decisions.
EDUCATION
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Real Estate
University of Northern Iowa
BA, Finance, International Business
SKILLS
ABOUT ADAM SHERER
Senior investment risk leader with 18 years’ experience in the investments industry. Experienced in investment risk concepts across asset classes, product types, andregulatory jurisdictions. Proven ability to deliver actionable risk analytics, strengthen governance, and influence decisions at the highest levels across mutual funds, ETFs,CEFs, and UCITS. Thought leader and architect of new processes for internal risk management as well as recent regulatory requirements.Specialties: Market risk; derivatives risk; counterparty ridk; board reporting; fund governance; investment analysis; mutual funds; closed-end funds; ETFs; UCITS; municipal bonds; commercial real estate; commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS); ARGUS; TREPP; FactSet; Bloomberg; investment risk
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