Kelly Ye Deputy CIO Avenir Group Fordham University Speaker : Quant 2026
QuantVision 2026: Fordham’s Quantitative Conference
Kelly Ye is Deputy CIO of Avenir Group, where she oversees portfolio strategy, research direction, and multi-asset investment innovation across global markets. Based in New York, she brings nearly two decades of experience spanning quantitative research, asset allocation, fixed income, ETFs, and digital assets.
Prior to joining Avenir Group in 2025, Kelly served as Portfolio Manager and Head of Research at Decentral Park Capital, where she led investment strategy and digital asset research. She also advised ACM Macro, contributing macro and crypto market insights.
Earlier, Kelly was Head of Product at Fidelity Digital Asset Management, driving product strategy across investment vehicles and helping bridge traditional finance and decentralized finance ecosystems. She previously served as Head of Research at CoinDesk Indices, shaping digital asset index methodologies and institutional benchmarks.
At IndexIQ, the ETF platform of New York Life Investments, Kelly led ETF research and product development for four years, overseeing portfolio construction, multi-asset strategy design, and product innovation. Before that, she headed Quantitative Investment and Strategic Asset Allocation at New York Life & MainStay Investments, where she led a team building asset allocation models and evaluating AI and big data opportunities in asset management.
Kelly began her institutional career at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as Senior Fixed Income Strategist, leading quantitative research for credit strategies and serving as head strategist for a 60 billion relationship loan portfolio. Earlier roles at BNP Paribas, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank focused on credit derivatives, securitized products, and mortgage trading.
She holds a Master’s degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from MIT and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Peking University.
Kelly’s career reflects deep quantitative rigor combined with cross-asset portfolio expertise and a forward-looking perspective on digital and alternative markets.
