Edward Rackham

Dr. Edward Rackham is a Co-Chief Investment Officer at Los Angeles Capital Management LLC.
His role is to oversee the risk management and portfolio construction tools used at the firm.
He and the Risk Management group focus on the research and development of portfolio construction techniques that are designed to forecast and control the investment risk of the firm’s portfolios.
In addition, he and the Risk Management group look at ways to embed the firm’s stock selection views into investment portfolios in a cost-controlled fashion while simultaneously controlling for forecast uncertainty in both portfolio’s expected performance and the portfolio’s forward-looking risk.
He works closely with the Portfolio Management, Research, Trading, and Operations departments.
Prior to joining Los Angeles Capital, Dr. Rackham spent six years at Wilshire Associates researching and developing risk and portfolio analytics tools, most recently as Head of Research and Development of their Equity Analytics group.
Previously, he was an Instructor in Mathematics and Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he also earned his doctorate.
Dr. Rackham received his Master in Chemistry degree and a PhD from the University of Oxford.