Claire Cooper McConnell Joins Turner Investment Partners as Quantitative Analyst
Published July 8th, 2009
Claire Cooper McConnell has joined Turner Investment Partners as a quantitative analyst.
In this position, Ms. McConnell, 22, is responsible for creating and enhancing screens of the firm’s domestic and global quantitative models, which are used in managing the firm’s quantitative, growth, core, and value portfolios; providing technical analysis on individual stocks and market sectors; developing and maintaining a global asset-allocation tool; and providing portfolio-management assistance.
She becomes the fifth member of the Quantitative Investing Team. She reports to David Kovacs, chief investment officer, quantitative strategies, and works with Jennifer Boden, quantitative analyst/portfolio manager; Freda Song Drechsler, quantitative research manager; and Jeffrey Riggs, quantitative analyst.
Her appointment supports the recent growth in Turner’s investment services and the team’s individual responsibilities. Since 2006, Turner’s assets under management in quantitative investments have increased by more than 400%, to about $600 million, as of June 30, 2009. She served as an intern on Turner’s Quantitative Investing Team in the fall of 2007 and the summer of 2008.
A resident of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Ms. McConnell received a bachelor of arts degree in engineering sciences, with a minor in economics, at Dartmouth College in June 2009. She was a member of Dartmouth’s rowing team and Sigma Delta sorority. In June she was named a Scholar Athlete by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association; to qualify for the honor, she had to earn a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher and row in a minimum of 75% of Dartmouth’s spring races.
Turner Investment Partners is an employee-owned investment firm based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Turner was founded in 1990 and invests more than $14 billion in stocks in separately managed accounts and mutual funds, as of March 31, 2009.
