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Mr. Shantz currently serves as the Director of Fixed Income for the $29 billion Employee Retirement System of Texas where he transformed its traditional core-plus mandate into distinct Rates & Credit portfolios. Prior to ERS, Mr. Shantz served as a Managing Director for the Lockheed Martin Investment Management Company, performing a similar transformation. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and assisted his employer win the 2015 Best Institutional ETF User Award from ETF.com.
An Institutional Approach to Fixed-Income Investing
It’s rare that you get to hear from one of the leading institutional investors discussing how they’re positioning their portfolio in today’s market. This is your chance: Employees Retirement System of Texas Director of Fixed Income Leighton Shantz takes the Inside Fixed Income stage to discuss his approach to today’s challenging market.
The Art & Science of Creating & Redeeming a Portfolio Using Bond & Equity ETFs
What was once a complex process taking days to create can now be done over a phone call. Taking your bond portfolio, custom-creating into ETFs and then trading with enhanced liquidity—what’s this process called and how is it done? We sit down with an institutional investor who pioneered this process, a trader and a market maker, to discuss what this process looks like, the benefits and the opportunities available to money managers.