Finance Professor, Steven Clark from Horizon Investments, to join Advisory Board

Steven will be advising on investment product design, management and getting Auctus ready for institutional investors.

Steven is an Associate Professor of Finance at UNC Charlotte where he conducts research in the areas of mathematical finance, derivative securities, asset pricing, and financial econometrics. His work at Horizon focuses on volatility forecasting models, dynamic factor models, and other quantitative methods with an emphasis toward the Quantitative investment team and toward the firm’s Risk Management suite of products.

Steven has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics, both from Clemson University. He has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Review of Derivatives Research, Review of Futures Markets, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Journal of Asset Management.

Horizon Investments, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm caters to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans and other type of investors.

It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm employs fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolios against the S&P 500 Index and Barclays Aggregate Bond Index.

The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments, was founded in 1995 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina with additional offices in Columbia, South Carolina and Naperville, Illinois.