Vident Financial, LLC Welcomes Habib Moudachirou as Senior Portfolio Manager at its Subsidiary, Vident Investment Advisory, LLC

ATLANTA, March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Vident Financial, LLC is proud to welcome Habib Moudachirou as Senior Portfolio Manager to Vident Investment Advisory, LLC (VIA).

Mr. Moudachirou brings over seventeen years of cross-asset trading, risk and portfolio management experience in both active and strategic beta indexation internationally. He specializes in managing factor-based investment strategies across the four major asset classes as well as creating and implementing bespoke research, structuring, and trading solutions. Mr. Moudachirou will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day portfolio management of VIA sub-advised ETFs. He will also further strengthen the operational efficiency of VIA's trading and investment management operations and bring additional expertise to the team.

"We are excited to have Habib join our team. Mr. Moudachirou's background in portfolio management of multi-factor and smart beta portfolios in a variety of fund structures globally will be invaluable in helping to guide VIA's efforts to further enhance our performance, as one of the leading sub-advisory firms in the ETF industry." Vince Birley, CEO & Co-Founder Vident Financial.

Prior to joining VIA, Mr. Moudachirou was an Executive Director and Portfolio Manager at J.P. Morgan, where he was responsible for building and managing smart beta and alternative risk premia strategies; employing cost-effective and liquid replacement solutions for hedge fund exposure and utilizing risk factor investing. While at J.P. Morgan, he also developed reporting and trading models for clients while optimizing strategies around various products, including ETFs. Before joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Moudachirou was an equity Portfolio Manager at Emerging Global Advisors (EGA), where he was responsible for $1.8 billion in emerging markets equity ETFs. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at the quantitative arm of HSBC Global Asset Management in Europe and in the U.S., where he served in various investment roles. He is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University SPS.

Leading the company is Denise Krisko, who has over twenty years of portfolio management and trading experience, with an expertise in ETF management from more than a decade of managing ETFs. She has served in various leadership roles with Mellon Capital Management (MCM), Bank of New York (BNY), Northern Trust Deutsche Asset Management and The Vanguard Group. She has worked with dozens of ETF sponsors and has overseen the management of more than 150 ETFs.

"I am thrilled to have Habib join the VIA team. We can take our portfolio management abilities to new levels of quality and capacity, as we further scale up our portfolio management expertise, and serve a greater number of ETF clients with excellence." Denise Krisko, President & Co-Founder Vident Investment Advisory.

Mr. Moudachirou holds BS in Physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University as well as an MS in Quantitative Finance from the University of Rennes, France. Additionally, he holds an MSE in Statistics from the French National School of Statistics University and Information Analysis, ENSAI. Mr. Moudachirou holds a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation.

Vident Investment Advisory provides sub-advisory services for quantitative strategies with a focus on ETFs. Vident Financial established VIA in 2014 to improve trading efficiencies and better control costs associated with the portfolio management and trading of their ETFs. VIA currently sub-advises 33 ETFs and one UCITS across a variety of asset classes with approximately $5.6B in AUM.

Vident Financial's index strategies and ETFs seek to utilize time-tested economic and investment principles to identify environments where human productivity can thrive long-term. Principles-based investment metrics are incorporated into rules-based processes, which helps to limit the emotional decision-making bias present in many active strategies.

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Vident Investment Advisory, LLC (VIA) provides asset management and sub-advisory services for index-based assets. The Firm's capabilities and experience include domestic and global equities, fixed income and commodities. The extensive experience and innovation for a variety of ETF sponsors has made ETF management VIA's specialty. The Firm endeavors to utilize its unique experience and state of the art technology to fulfill client objectives and exceed expectations.

Vident Financial is a financial services innovator that develops and licenses transparent investment market indices based on a distinct framework and rigorous global research. Based in Atlanta, GA, Vident's indices utilize sophisticated risk-balancing methodologies, economic freedom metrics, valuation, and investor behavior with a systematic, structured, and rules-based investment process. In short, Vident was founded with the purpose of applying timeless wisdom and established principles to today's complex investment decisions. The name Vident comes from a Latin word meaning, "they oversee, they care for." The company is wholly owned by the Vident Investors' Oversight Trust and is solely focused on serving the needs of investors.

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