Hard Assets in Hard Times: Protecting Wealth with Commodities & Precious Metals

Doug Couden, CFA

CIO, Partner, Baker Avenue Wealth Management

Doug is a tested market specialist with multiple cycles under his belt. He leads the firm’s multi-disciplined (technical, macro, and fundamental) investment approach and is a partner and member of the firm’s executive committee. He is responsible for managing the investment team, the firm’s research process, risk control, due diligence, asset allocation, and the overall performance of BakerAvenue’s strategies.

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Aakash Doshi

Head of Gold Strategy, State Street

Aakash is Global Head of Gold for the SPDR ETF business. He manages strategists in North America and APAC and is responsible for the investment outlook, thematic research, and go-to-market product strategy for the State Street Investment Management gold ETF suite. He interacts daily with clients, sales leadership, distribution channels, marketing, and fund sponsors. In addition, he collaborates extensively across the State Street Investment Management franchise in the macro, commodities, and alternatives space to provide thought leadership, client insights, and market updates.

Prior to joining State Street Investment Management, Aakash spent over 13 years in the institutional sell-side fixed income research division at Citigroup as a cross-asset strategist and most recently as Head of Commodities Strategy for the Americas. He previously worked in credit derivatives trading at UBS Investment Bank, Asset Management Sales at Alliance-Bernstein, and began his career on the Short-Term Interest Rates Trading desk at GMAC. Aakash holds a Masters in Energy Economics, with distinction, from Columbia University.

Christopher Hartmann

Vice President, RIA Regional Consultant, State Street Investment Management

Nitesh Shah

Head of Commodities and Macroeconomic Research, WisdomTree Europe