Jonathan Swaney was an employee of New York Life Investments from 1997-2009 and was responsible both for managing quantitative equity portfolios and performing research at New York Life Investments’ Equity Investors Group. Also within New York Life Investments, Mr. Swaney previously worked with the Investment Consulting Group and was a portfolio manager with the Quantitative Strategies unit. In 2009, Mr. Swaney joined Madison Square Investors LLC, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of New York Life. While at Madison Square Investors LLC, Mr. Swaney was responsible both for managing quantitative equity portfolios and performing research. In January 2011, Mr. Swaney re-joined New York Life Investments as part of the Investment Consulting Group. Mr. Swaney began his career in financil services working on the fixed income desk at the Vanguard Group after earned his B.A. in Political Science from The College of William & Mary in 1991. He also spent several years with a hedge fund of funds before coming to New York Life Investments in 1997.

Amit Soni joined New York Life Investments in 2013 as a Senior Associate in the Strategic Asset Allocation and Solutions Group. Mr. Soni focuses on quantitative and macro-economic investment research and portfolio management for the funds managed by the team. Prior to joining New York Life Investments, he worked as an Investment Associate in the Global Asset Allocation group at Putnam Investments. He holds a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Computation for Design and Optimization and a Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) in Mechanical Engineering. He holds the CFA® designation and has been in the investment industry since 2008.

Migene Kim, CFA is the Head of Systematic Equity and a Portfolio Manager & Senior Analyst. Her responsibilities include portfolio management, investment research & strategy development. Migene joined the firm in 2005 as a PM. Previously, she spent 7 yrs as a quantitative analyst in INVESCO's Structured Products Group. She started her career as an Analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1993. She received her BA in Mathematics, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has been working in industry since 1993.