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Shari Gilfillan
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager
Professional Profile
Shari Gilfillan is a Senior Vice President and Institutional Portfolio Manager within the Institutional Investments and Philanthropic Solutions group at Bank of America Private Bank in Chicago, Illinois. In this role, Shari manages portfolios for endowments, foundations, charitable trusts and pension plans on a discretionary basis. This includes developing and executing the appropriate strategy and investment approach that may best assist clients in meeting short and long-term goals. More specifically, Shari manages customized strategies by leveraging the Private Bank's broad range of investment management services, identify opportunities to help shape portfolios that may maximize the positive impact on long-term organizational outcomes, provide guidance to allocate assets to help meet unique objectives and research market ideas and build investment portfolios by navigating in today’s evolving markets.
Previously, Shari was a Senior Client Portfolio Manager and Global Portfolio Manager on the Sustainable Equities team at UBS Asset Management (formerly Brinson Partners) where she was an early adopter of using quantitative ESG data in a historically fundamental investment process. Shari had primary responsibility for overall product positioning and development of Sustainable Equity Strategies, as well as marketing and communications to existing and prospective clients globally. She performed portfolio construction analysis to improve investment decisions, used risk management tools to align portfolio active risk with top investment ideas and was the Deputy Portfolio Manager on the Global Sustainable Portfolio. Shari began her career at Northern Trust.
Shari earned her bachelor’s degree in finance from Miami University in Ohio and her MBA from DePaul University in Chicago. Shari Gilfillan has contributed to Steering Committee Meetings for the GISR (Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings) in Boston, and is a member of Chicago SRI/ESG Investors Network, Women Investment Professionals, and 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Shari has spoken on investor panels about such subjects as Sustainable Investing and the Evolution of Socially Responsible Investing at national conferences including US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum) in Washington D.C., Foundation Endowment & Non For Profit Investment Summit in Toronto, Financial Women’s Association in New York and Womenetics Global Initiative Conference in Chicago.
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