Bill DeRoche, MBA, CFA®
Chief Investment Officer and Head of AGFiQ Alternative Strategies
AGF Investments LLC
Bill DeRoche is Chief Investment Officer, AGF Investments LLC (formerly FFCM LLC)1, and Head of AGFiQ Alternative Strategies.
Bill is co-founder of AGF Investments LLC, a Boston-based investor advisory firm founded in 2009 and subsidiary of AGF Management Limited. He is a leader of AGF’s quantitative investment platform, known as AGFiQ. AGFiQ’s team approach is grounded in the belief that investment outcomes can be improved by assessing and targeting the factors that drive market returns. Bill has long-tenured expertise employing quantitative factor-based strategies and alternative approaches to achieve a spectrum of investment objectives.
Previously, Bill was a Vice-President at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), serving as head of the firm’s U.S. Enhanced Equities team. His focus was on managing long-only and 130/30 U.S. strategies, as well as providing research on SSgA’s stock-ranking models and portfolio construction techniques. Prior to joining SSgA in 2003, Bill was a Quantitative Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Putnam Investments. Bill has been working in the investment management field since 1995. Prior to 1995, Bill was a Naval Aviator flying the Grumman A-6 Intruder as a member of Attack Squadron Eighty-Five aboard the USS America (CV-66).
Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is a CFA® charterholder and holds FINRA licenses 7, 63 and 24.
1An investment professional with AGF Investments LLC (formerly FFCM LLC), a U.S.-registered investment advisor firm and affiliate of AGF Investments Inc.
Recent Articles from this contributor
June 4, 2020
Bill DeRoche, CIO and portfolio manager at AGF Investments LLC, discusses recent performance across the liquid alternatives universe and explains what to look for when picking an alt strategy to own
May 1, 2020
Most “alt” investments outperformed broader equity markets during the crisis. Fewer were able to garner positive returns.
