Beacon Pointe Advisors has hired Michael Dow CIO.
Dow has also been named chairman of the 14-member Beacon Pointe Investment Committee.
Before joining Beacon Pointe, Dow served as managing director and head of U.S. Core Plus Bond, head of Sovereign Credit Research, and head of Emerging Market Corporate Debt at UBS Global Asset Management, where he was responsible for portfolio management, research, trading and strategy across the UBS global platform for these products.
Prior to joining UBS, Dow was enrolled at the University of Chicago and studied in several post-graduate programs including Economics and the School of Public Policy and had begun core coursework in the PhD Finance Program at the Chicago Booth School before returning to the capital markets in early 2008.
He remains affiliated with the University of Chicago and has taught the undergraduate intermediate accounting course at Lake Forest College as an adjunct professor, and as a guest lecturer at the University of Illinois, Northwestern University and Notre Dame.
Prior to academia, Dow was with Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) in a variety of roles, most latterly as an investment-grade corporate bond portfolio manager, where he held joint responsibility for strategy, portfolio management and trading investment-grade corporate bonds across the PIMCO platform.
He received a BS in accounting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he played intercollegiate water polo, and his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago.
