Financial Perspectives: Insights from Investment Professionals - Sovereign Wealth Funds w/ Chris Browne, CFA - CIO & Partner; Democracy Investments

Sovereign Wealth Funds w/ Chris Browne, CFA - CIO & Partner; Democracy Investments

10/25/22 • 31 min

Financial Perspectives: Insights from Investment Professionals

On this month’s episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Christopher Browne, CFA, Chief Investment Officer and Partner at Democracy Investments. The Democracy International Fund assesses democratic factors in countries and allocates based on these criteria with the intention of increasing economic growth for democratic countries.
Prior to joining Democracy Investments, Chris was a Solutions Portfolio Manager for Franklin Templeton Investments, where he advised institutions and family offices on multi-asset portfolio construction. Before his employment at Franklin Templeton, Chris was a fixed-income portfolio manager at California Investment Trust (now Shelton Capital), where he managed all fixed income for the firm. He received his MBA in International Business from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, and has a BA in English from the University of California – Santa Barbara.

Listen to the full interview, where Chris discusses how capital flow can potentially impact a country’s political environment.

This episode discusses ESG, international equity indexes, impact investing, ETFs, the spread of democracy, and sovereign wealth funds.

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Listen to the full interview, where Chris discusses how capital flow can potentially impact a country’s political environment.

This episode discusses ESG, international equity indexes, impact investing, ETFs, the spread of democracy, and sovereign wealth funds.

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On the September episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Yanrong Chen, PhD, Business Analyst at EasyAUM. Yanrong is a current Level III candidate in the CFA Program.
Prior to moving into finance, Yanrong was a history lecturer at KU Leuven in Belgium and was a post-doc researcher at the University of San Francisco. Her research was on communication between Europe and East Asia during early modern globalization. Already a published author and translator in her academic field, Yanrong took a career shift by self-studying finance and software engineering. In addition to pursuing the CFA designation, she is acquiring technical skills in data analysis, quants, and product management. She believes in perpetual learning. That commitment is driving her new career to take off in the industry.

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On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with John Ailanjian, CFA, General Partner and CIO for Next Play Capital. John has been instrumental in expanding the firm’s quantitative models to screen and perform due diligence on company investments. He also plays an integral role in the programming and education of Next Play Capital’s Fellowship program.
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