Jeff Glattfelder

Jeffrey R. Glattfelder, CFA, CAIA, Director, is a member of BlackRock Alternatives Specialists (BAS). He serves as a product strategist for all alternative investment funds offered to retail investors.Prior to joining BlackRock in 2012, Mr. Glattfelder was a product specialist in the Managed Futures Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB), where he assisted financial advisors and clients throughout the system with understanding managed futures investments in the context of an overall portfolio. Previously he was in MSSB’s Alternative Investment Product Management Group where he was responsible for developing the offering menu for its funds of hedge funds platform. Mr. Glattfelder began his career at Merrill Lynch in various product development, quantitative research, portfolio management and institutional client service roles. Mr. Glattfelder is a graduate of Hofstra University. He is a member of the Alternative Investment Committee of the New York Society of Security Analysts. In 2009, Mr. Glattfelder was a contributing author for the fund of hedge funds chapter in “Hedge Fund Alpha: A Framework for Generating and Understanding Investment Performance” edited by John M. Longo, World Scientific Press.