About Artifex
Expertise in Risk and Portfolio Construction
Artifex provides asset owners and managers with essential tools for effective portfolio management. Our services encompass building comprehensive business intelligence solutions and tailored reporting, facilitating performance tracking, risk management, policy creation, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder communication.
Our goal is to liberate asset owners and managers, allowing them to concentrate on their core strengths in investment and risk management. We relieve them of time-consuming tasks like data importing and validation, investment modeling and analysis, and generating materials. We utilize proven tools that allow us to rapidly provide these capabilities to asset owners and managers who may not have large teams of technology and data staff dedicated to this purpose. In turn, this means that our clients can focus on managing their portfolios.
Our team has extensive experience in building risk environments as well as being directly responsible for managing multi-billion-dollar investment portfolios. We have worked in the asset management, pension fund, hedge fund, and banking industries. This combination of financial and technical skills is what allows us to help our clients succeed.
Our Leadership Team
Matt Bianco, Managing Partner
Mr. Bianco has over 25 years of experience across the banking, asset management, and pension industries. He was Managing Director, Head of Risk & Strategy for Capital Markets & Factor Investing at Canada Pension Plan Investments. Prior to joining CPP, he was a partner and Head of Risk Management and Portfolio Construction at Arden Asset Management. Previously, he was the Head of Market Risk Management for WestLB AG in New York.
Mr. Bianco earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union, as well as an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University. He also holds an M.B.A. in Banking and Financial Markets from the NYU Stern School of Business. He holds the Financial Risk Manager certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute.
Scott Lindell, Managing Partner
Mr. Lindell has spent over 20 years in financial services, most notably within the hedge fund, family office, and asset management industries. He was most recently the Chief Risk Officer at Wildcat Capital Management, the family office for an ultra-high net worth investor, as well as a large New York-based absolute return hedge fund. Prior to these roles, he was the Head of Risk Management and Portfolio Construction at Arden Asset Management, a large alternative asset allocator. Mr. Lindell also spent 5 years at JP Morgan Asset Management.
Mr. Lindell received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University at Buffalo in 2001 and an M.B.A. in Finance & Investments from Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business in 2005. He holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation from the CAIA Association as well as the Financial Risk Manager certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.