Jakob Bak, PhD, CFA

Jakob Bak joined MacKay in April 2011 as a Portfolio Analyst within our Global Fixed Income team, Jakob was previously a Senior Investment Strategist/Vice President with Pareto Partners. While at Pareto, he was responsible for developing and managing multiple fixed income and foreign exchange strategies. Jakob was also instrumental in launching/designing a foreign exchange and interest rate multi-strategy hedge fund and an exchange rate overlay program. Analyzing trading ideas and strategies and performing ongoing attribution are other areas of responsibility. Before Pareto, Jakob was a Research Analyst/Vice President with Standish Mellon as a member of their Global Fixed Income team. Jakob holds a PhD in Physics from Ohio University, a BA from Cornell University and is a CFA Charterholder. He has been in the investment management industry since 2000.