Barry Schachter

Barry Schachter is an advisor to FFI Solutions. Barry has over 24 years of buy-side asset management experience building and directing the risk function at prominent firms such as Caxton, Balyasny, SAC Capital, among others. After receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell, he began his career in academia, after which he transitioned to financial markets regulation at the CFTC and OCC, before entering the private sector. He actively contributes to industry discourse, publishing technical articles and presenting at practitioner conferences. He has been an advisor to FFI since its founding, focused on portfolio analytics and performance measurement.  Throughout his career he has promoted innovation and embraced change for success in the context of evolving financial market dynamics and trends in investment strategies.