Rosetta Analytics Co-Founder Julia Bonafede & Fmr Wilshire Consulting President on Deep Reinforcement Learning For Investing
Julia Bonafede, CFA, Co- Founder of Rosetta Analytics
Founded in 2016, Rosetta Analytics, Inc. is an alternative asset manager that is pioneering the use of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to build and manage liquid investment strategies.
Rosetta’s deep learning and deep reinforcement learning model find patterns in data directly and makes predictions independent of human intervention. Rosetta has a cross-disciplinary team of intellectually gifted scientists and investment professionals from around the world and is backed and seeded by Verger Capital Management, an outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO).
Before co-founding Rosetta Analytics, Julia spent 24 years building teams and businesses at Wilshire Associates. She was president of Wilshire Consulting and a member of Wilshire’s board of directors and Wilshire Consulting’s investment committee. She led over 90 consulting professionals servicing more than 200 client relationships with total assets exceeding $1 trillion. At Wilshire, Bonafede also served as a strategic consultant to large state and corporate pension funds and endowment and foundation clients. She has spoken at industry conferences on risk management, fiduciary issues, asset allocation and rebalancing, the market environment and the evolution of the investment consulting business.
She is a member of the CFA Institute and a founding member of the United Kingdom Society of Investment Professionals/CFA Society United Kingdom. She currently serves on the standards of practice council for the CFA Institute.
She was listed as a top knowledge broker in Chief Investment Officer magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential investment consultants in 2015. Her publications include “The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index: The Logistics Behind Managing Broad-Based Indexes” in Journal of Indexes, 3rd Quarter 2003 and “A Multi-Period Linking Algorithm that Has Stood the Test of Time” in The Journal of Performance Measurement, Volume 7: Number 1.
Bonafede received a B.S. in marketing from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
