
Carlos Asilis, PhD
Co-Founder

Carlos Asilis, PhD
Co-Founder
Carlos Asilis leads the design and implementation of a dynamic asset-allocation framework that blends strategic, tactical, and thematic overlays across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities as well as drawdown-mitigation tools and scenario analysis to optimize downside protection.
Over the past three decades, Carlos has served as senior portfolio manager, chief investment officer and chief investment strategist at some of the world’s leading financial institutions. On the investment management side, Carlos served at Graham Capital Management, Vega Asset Management and Banco Santander’s Main Proprietary Trading Group (Madrid) where he has run cross-asset market portfolios. Between 2007 and 2024, Carlos was one of two co-founders and the Chief Investment Officer of Glovista Investments, a US based asset management firm that ran global investment programs for over 40 US and European institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, endowment funds as well as family offices from the US, Latin America, India and Europe.
On the investment strategy side, Carlos served as Chief Global Investment Strategist at JPMorgan Chase (1999-2002) where he held primary responsibility in producing global asset allocation recommendations for the firm’s institutional client base worldwide as well as providing regular input to the firm’s Executive Board in the context of the Board’s periodic revisions of the firm’s multi-year strategy plans.
In the 1990s Carlos served as Chief Emerging Market Strategist at several Proprietary Trading Groups, including at UBS and Credit Suisse First Boston, as well as Chief Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Strategist for Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and Latin America at Merrill Lynch.
Prior to his career on Wall Street, Carlos served at the International Monetary Fund where he held primary responsibility in economic surveillance on a number of major developing countries, including the Russian Federation and China, in addition to overseeing review process and participating in several technical assistance and review missions to the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Carlos started his career in 1988 at Georgetown University as economics professor, following his graduation from the University of Chicago (Ph.D., M.A.) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Finance and Economics).
Carlos Asilis leads the design and implementation of a dynamic asset-allocation framework that blends strategic, tactical, and thematic overlays across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities as well as drawdown-mitigation tools and scenario analysis to optimize downside protection.
Over the past three decades, Carlos has served as senior portfolio manager, chief investment officer and chief investment strategist at some of the world’s leading financial institutions. On the investment management side, Carlos served at Graham Capital Management, Vega Asset Management and Banco Santander’s Main Proprietary Trading Group (Madrid) where he has run cross-asset market portfolios. Between 2007 and 2024, Carlos was one of two co-founders and the Chief Investment Officer of Glovista Investments, a US based asset management firm that ran global investment programs for over 40 US and European institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, endowment funds as well as family offices from the US, Latin America, India and Europe.
On the investment strategy side, Carlos served as Chief Global Investment Strategist at JPMorgan Chase (1999-2002) where he held primary responsibility in producing global asset allocation recommendations for the firm’s institutional client base worldwide as well as providing regular input to the firm’s Executive Board in the context of the Board’s periodic revisions of the firm’s multi-year strategy plans.
In the 1990s Carlos served as Chief Emerging Market Strategist at several Proprietary Trading Groups, including at UBS and Credit Suisse First Boston, as well as Chief Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Strategist for Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and Latin America at Merrill Lynch.
Prior to his career on Wall Street, Carlos served at the International Monetary Fund where he held primary responsibility in economic surveillance on a number of major developing countries, including the Russian Federation and China, in addition to overseeing review process and participating in several technical assistance and review missions to the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Carlos started his career in 1988 at Georgetown University as economics professor, following his graduation from the University of Chicago (Ph.D., M.A.) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Finance and Economics).
