Christopher R. Grohe, CFA

Senior Managing Director at Wellington, Associate Director, QIG Equity Research

Background

Chris Grohe is a portfolio manager on the Hartford Emerging Markets Equity Fund. As an associate director of Equity Research in the Quantitative Investment Group, Chris leads research efforts focused on the group’s stock selection models and systematic equity strategies. He also serves in a portfolio management capacity for several of the group’s portfolio approaches. In addition to research and portfolio management, he also performs bespoke and thematic research for investment teams within the firm and contributes to the development of the group’s proprietary technology platform

Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Chris served as manager, Quantitative Development, at Deutsche Asset Management, where he was responsible for delivering technology solutions for quantitative equity research (2001 – 2002). He also served in similar capacities at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo, LLP (2000 – 2001); Santander Global Advisors (1997 – 2000); and Baring Asset Management (1994 – 1997).

Chris earned his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan, 2012) and his BS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1998). Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.