Robert Discolo, CFA
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Robert Discolo, CFA, CAIA
Mr Discolo is currently Chief Executive Officer/Chief Investment Officer of River Partners, a $1.5 billion + Family Office that invests primarily in equities and alternative investments.
Before River Partners Mr Discolo was Executive Vice President, Investments, at Permal Group, an investment firm that managed more than $20 billion. Mr Discolo was also a member of the Group’s Global Investment Committee.
Mr Discolo spent 14 years at AIG Investments (and its successor, Pinebridge Investments), where he was a Managing Director of Alternatives and the Head of Hedge Fund Solutions Group, ultimately responsible for managing over $10 billion in proprietary and client assets in hedge funds and other alternative asset classes.
Before joining AIG, Mr Discolo spent seven years at Bank Julius Baer where he was head of the Public/Private Funds Group, and before that was at Merrill Lynch in Private Equity Partnership Financing, having started at Drexel Burnham Lambert after graduating college
Mr Discolo has authored and co-authored several papers on alternative investing, asset allocation and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mr Discolo is a CFA® and CAIA Charterholder, former U.S Army Military Police Sergeant and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant. Mr Discolo holds an M.B.A. from Pace University, Lubin School of Business, New York, and a B.S. from St John’s University, Jamaica, New York.
Mr Discolo currently serves on the Board of Directors at CFANY in addition to being a Sustaining Board Member for Youth Inc.; a NYC based nonprofit whose goal is to transform the lives of NYC kids through unique venture philanthropy model that empowers the nonprofits that serve them. He previously served as Board member and Head of the Investment Committee for Holy Cross HS in the early to mid-2000s