Brian Singer is Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Singer Partners, LLC. Mr. Singer was the former head of Global Investment Solutions and Americas Chief Investment Officer for UBS Global Asset Management. While at UBS Global Asset Management he was responsible for asset allocation and currency strategies, and developing integrated risk analysis and management capabilities for application throughout the business. He and his team set strategies for $200 billion of multi-asset and multi-currency portfolios. He was a member of the UBS Global Asset Management Executive Committee and a member of the UBS Group Managing Board.
Mr. Singer is a board member and former chair of the CFA Institute Board of Governors and is also a former member of the Research Foundation of CFA Institute Board of Trustees. The CFA Institute is a global membership organization that awards the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and leads the investment industry by setting the highest standards of ethics and professional excellence and vigorously advocating for fair and transparent capital markets.
Brian serves on the Exeter College at Oxford University Endowment Investment Committee. In 1991, Brian co-wrote a landmark update to one of the pioneering studies on asset allocation, ‘Determinants of Portfolio Performance II: An Update,’ with Gary Brinson and Gilbert Beebower. In 2009, Brian was the lead author of ‘Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management’, Wiley Publishing.
He graduated from Northwestern University in Economics and has an MBA from the University of Chicago.
He lives in Glencoe, Illinois with his wife, Linda and two children, Margo and Andy.
