Wyck J. Brown
Vice President at Innovest Portfolio Solutions
- Role
- Managing Director at Castle Placement
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Wyck J. Brown
Specialties: New investment fund development, strategy, and launch: Alternatives (hedge funds & other LP\'s), and liquid alternatives (40-Act funds) including a current focus on Listed Private Equity. Active long/short investment fund management, fixed income trading, and investment strategies including explicit and implicit options valuation as well as structured finance deal structuring.Entrepreneurial start-ups and small company strategy.Applications of IT and strategic database technology and analytics for the optimization of investment portfolios and/or corporate strategy.Experience:19 years of trading and portfolio management experience in the alternative fixed income capital markets including successfully running a $500MM long/short bond structured finance hedge fund for 8 years. A deep understanding of capital markets, securities valuation, portfolio strategy, embedded and explicit options valuation and investment firm management.Currently, five years product and investment strategy development & oversight with a 40-Act Adviser. Products include open end mutual funds, CEF\'s, and ETF\'s in a wide array of liquid alternative asset classes with special focus on the listed private equity space.Experience with five start-ups, including providing angel capital. Currently focused on FinTech and consumer tech. 10 years of information systems development and software start-up management in investment analytic and capital market-related database development and solutions software.
Experience
Managing Director
Nov 2021 — Present · Denver, CO, US
Sourcing, originating and executing equity and debt capital raises for private companies, FINRA Series 7, 63 & 79 licenses.Castle Placement is a full service investment bank focused on raising equity and debt capital, and M&A for private companies and funds using a robust, data-driven technology platform. Over 64,500 institutional, private equity, venture capital and strategic investors, family offices, pension funds, foundations, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and lenders. Member FINRA/SIPC.
Education
University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
B.S. Business Administration, Management Information Systems
1981 — 1986
University of Denver - Daniels College of Business
MBA, Finance
1986 — 1989
Skills
- Hedge Funds
- Fixed Income
- Asset Management
- Portfolio Management
- Valuation
- Investments
- Investment Strategies
- Structured Finance
- Trading
- Options
- Alternative Investments
- Asset Allocation
- Financial Modeling
- Capital Markets
- Bloomberg
- Mbs
- Structuring
- Financial Analysis
- Quantitative Analysis
- Hedging
- Risk Management
- Derivatives
- Due Diligence
- Credit Analysis
- Structured Products
- Credit Risk
- Financial Markets
- Credit Derivatives
- Bonds
- Dcf
- Securitization
- Fixed Income Products
- Asset Managment
- Financial Structuring
- Finance
- Private Equity
- Strategy
- Investment Management
- Securities
- Financial Services
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