Thomas Wackerlin

Background

About Thomas Wackerlin

Thomas Wackerlin is a Client Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President with Northern Trust Asset Management. His team collaborates with institutional and private wealth investors to understand their unique circumstances and to deliver value added insights and solutions to meet their objectives. Tom's primary function is to lead innovation and the articulation of the benefit of the firm's quantitative active approach across asset classes along with developing thought leadership in a variety of aspects such as applied portfolio research and publish papers discussing quantitative and sustainable investing topics. Tom is a member of a Sustainable Investing Working Group at Northern Trust that focuses on creating and enhancing Northern Trust’s environmental, social, and governance investing capabilities and actions globally. Prior to his current role, Tom was an investment product manager for Northern Trust Asset Management's equity team. In that role, Tom led new product development, market positioning, and product line management in North America for the firm's passive equity platform. Prior to 2008, Tom held an account manager position in the sovereign wealth fund division that serviced corporate & institutional clients for the Northern Trust Company in the Asia Pacific region. Tom's experiences include assignments to the region to support clients locally. Tom received a B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa. Tom has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society Chicago. Specialties: Global Equities, Quantitative Factor-Based Strategies, Index Management, ESG Investing, Asset Allocation