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Rick Rubin, CFA
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Rick Rubin is a leading asset management industry consultant, specializing in ETF investment strategists, mutual fund managers, and RIAs. His unique expertise stems from over 25 years of hands-on buy side and sell side experience in ETF and equity portfolio management, trading, and operations. Rick has been an independent consultant since 2011, focusing on optimizing portfolio implementation by maximizing efficiencies in trading and operations processes and rebuilding portfolio management infrastructures.

Prior to starting his consulting business, Rick was Chief Operating Officer & Co-Head of Research for Soleil Securities, Portfolio Manager & Director of Trading for XTF Global Asset Management, and an ETF market-maker on the AMEX floor. He started his career as an institutional equity trader with Spear Leeds & Kellogg and Goldman Sachs. Rick graduated cum laude from the University of Miami, has an M.A. in Economics from Duke University, and is a CFA charterholder.