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a privately held financial services firm
DSC Quantitative Group is a research-focused alternative investment firm
DSC Quantitative Group is a research-focused alternative investment firm founded in 2012 by Arthur Bushonville and Andrew Bluhm. We provide quantitative alternative investment solutions by integrating capital markets experience with world class academic research. DSC Quantitative Group partnered with Refinitiv (successor to Thomson Reuters) to create a portfolio of benchmark and investable indices seeking to track the gross performance of both the US private equity and venture capital industries.
Our Team
Arthur Bushonville, Chief Executive Officer
Art is the Founder and CEO of DSC Quantitative Group, LLC. He also developed the investable hedge fund index operation for Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (“HFR”) including index methodology, manager selection and, structured product development and distribution. Prior to joining HFR, Art was the Founder/CEO of a venture backed Internet exchange operation focused on creating unique derivative markets for online trading. He managed the financial trading and investments group for Koch Industries, and spent seven years in the Capital Markets Group at the First National Bank of Chicago (J.P. Morgan). He began his career at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he held various positions, including research and audit.
Art earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BBA from Loyola University of Chicago.
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Andrew G. Bluhm
Andrew G. Bluhm, Chairman of Board of Managers
Andy is the founder and managing principal of Delaware Street Capital, an opportunistic hedge fund which at its peak managed over $750 million in assets. Previously, he was a partner and founder of Walton Street Capital, a multi-billion dollar private equity real estate opportunity fund, where he was a key acquisition partner and directly responsible for approximately $1.3 billion of transactions. Prior to Walton Street Capital, Andy worked for JMB Realty Corporation in their acquisitions group and for Goldman, Sachs and Company in their leveraged buyout and restructuring group. Andy received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as a director of HFA Holdings, a $7 billion fund of funds operating primarily under the Lighthouse brand.
Jeffrey F. Knupp, President
Jeff brings 25 years of Capital Markets experience from a variety of different roles to DSCQG. Prior to joining, Jeff was the COO of Cloud Gate Capital, a long/short equity manager. Previously he ran Deutsche Bank’s Global Prime Finance efforts in the Midwest and had a similar role with Morgan Stanley. Jeff’s background also includes several years with Citadel Investment Group in Corporate Strategy and Development and experience as a management consultant in A.T. Kearney’s Financial Institutions Group, primarily focused on securities related businesses.
Jeff earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. from DePauw University.
Ravi Jagannathan, Ph.D.
Ravi is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining the Kellogg faculty, he was the Piper Jaffray Professor of Finance at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Concurrent with his position at the University of Minnesota he has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Ravi’s research covers valuation, options/futures markets, portfolio management and portfolio performance evaluation. He has taught and written extensively on risk assessment of efficient portfolios and on understanding and evaluating mutual and hedge funds styles. He has published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies.
Ravi has served on the editorial boards of major academic and professional journals. He has also served as a consultant to various organizations.
Robert A. Korajczyk, Ph.D.
Professor Korajczyk has been a member of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Faculty since 1982. He is the Director of the Zell Center for Risk Research, the Harry G. Guthmann Distinguished Professor of Finance, former Chairman of the Department of Finance and Senior Associate Dean of Curriculum and Teaching. He was the Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance and Review of Quantitative Finance. Professor Korajczyk is a leading academic in investments and portfolio management.
He has held visiting faculty appointments at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D., the University of Vienna and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has served as a consultant for the World Bank and a number of other organizations.
Grant Farnsworth, Ph.D, CFA, FRM, Head of Quantitative Modeling and Strategies
Grant previously worked with Chicago Alternative Investment Partners LLC in developing and implementing quantitative trading models since 2007. Prior to entering finance, he worked in high performance computing, computational physics, and evolutionary computing at Sandia National Laboratories. He has programmed extensively in the R programming language and has authored “R for Econometrics,” a technical manual available at the R website.
Grant graduated from Brigham Young University Magna Cum Laude with a double major in Economics and Mathematics, specializing in Numerical Analysis. He received a MS in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he studied Asset Pricing and Financial Econometrics with Professor Ravi Jagannathan. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Finance at Pennsylvania State University. Grant is also a CFA charterholder and has been certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals as a Financial Risk Manager.
Leo Kavitsky, Operations Manager
Leo is the Operations Manager and has provided operational support for the Bluhm platform of businesses since 2005, including DSC Quantitative Group, LLC. He previously spent five years with Bisys Hedge Fund Services (now Citi Fund Services) as an account manager.
Leo earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a B.A. from Bryant University.
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