Mark Britten-Jones of Laurel Canyon Partners to Deliver UCLA Anderson MFE Class of 2020 Commencement Address

Mark Britten-Jones of Laurel Canyon Partners to Deliver UCLA Anderson MFE Class of 2020 Commencement Address

Los Angeles (December 15, 2020) — UCLA Anderson School of Management announced that Mark Britten-Jones (Ph.D. ’96), a founding partner of the quantitative global macro hedge fund Laurel Canyon Partners, will address the Class of 2020 Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) graduates. A total of 73 students will graduate during the 2020 MFE commencement ceremony, which will take place at 8:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, December 18, 2020, via YouTube Live.

UCLA Anderson Associate Professor of Finance Lars Lochstoer was chosen by the graduating MFE class to receive the MFE Teaching Excellence Award, which will be presented to him at the commencement ceremony.

The MFE program at UCLA Anderson prepares students for careers in risk management, asset management, data science, derivative pricing, private equity, hedge funds and technical areas of corporate finance.

“We’re delighted our graduates will hear from Mark Britten-Jones, a UCLA Anderson finance Ph.D. graduate, who has decades of expertise in quant investing,” said Professor Mikhail Chernov, faculty director of the MFE program.

Britten-Jones was a founding partner of Laurel Canyon Partners and spent six years running the quantitative global macro hedge fund. Before that, he served as a managing director at BlackRock/Barclays Global Investors, where he managed a variety of research and strategy groups covering equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities. He has created and implemented strategies managing billions of dollars. He has a Ph.D. in finance from UCLA Anderson, and for five years was an assistant professor at London Business School, where his research into derivatives, risk management and the statistics of portfolio optimization was published in the leading academic and practitioner finance journals.