Gildas Quinquis, Chief Investment Officer for the Boston-based Windrose Advisors, takes us through his nearly thirty-year career in investment management, describing how he approaches the current landscape for his clients and where he is finding areas of opportunity. Gildas oversees investment strategy, asset allocation, and manager selection at this independent boutique wealth management firm that delivers sophisticated, customized investment advice to a select group of families, foundations, and endowments.
Founded in 2009 by Boston-area entrepreneurs and experienced institutional investment professionals, the firm has grown to approximately $4 billion in assets under advisement. Gildas shares his team’s process to manager sourcing, due diligence, selection, and how they consider investment decisions.
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Gildas is the Chief Investment Officer at Windrose Advisors, bringing over seventeen years of experience to the investment process. Gildas oversees investment strategy, asset allocation and manager selection for the firm. He is a member of the Windrose Advisors Investment Committee.
Previously, Gildas served as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Partners HealthCare System, a Boston hospital group including leading academic medical centers affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Over the course of his tenure with the Investment Office, assets under management including operational, endowment and pension assets, grew from $3 billion to over $13 billion, and his prior responsibilities expanded from analyst to portfolio manager and director public markets. In his various roles, Gildas managed a money market portfolio of up to $1 billion, evaluated and selected managers across all asset classes, including public and private alternatives, and participated in the Investment Committee of Partners HealthCare. Prior to joining the Investment Office, Gildas worked across the system as an analyst with Treasury, Financial Planning and Partners HealthCare International.
Gildas earned his MBA from the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and his BA from NEOMA Business School in France. He was honored in 2014 with a “Rising Star” award by Investor Intelligence Network and has been a guest lecturer at Boston College. He currently serves on the Investment Committee of MASCO, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic area. Previously, Gildas sat on Advisory Boards for private funds of Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Strategic Value Partners.
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