Danielle M Ward

Professional Profile

Danielle M. Ward is a Managing Director and Institutional Client Executive within the Philanthropic Solutions Group at Bank of America Private Bank. With a focus on relationship management, Danielle works to create an optimal experience for the firm’s strategic institutional non-profit clients throughout the United States, catering to the distinctive needs of endowments, foundations and charitable organizations. As the leader of a client’s team, she oversees the design, development and implementation of customized services and strategies in fiduciary investment management.

In Danielle’s prior role with Bank of America, she was a Senior Institutional Portfolio Manager responsible for the development and execution of non-profit clients’ investment objectives, which included strategic asset allocation, tactical asset allocation, manager selection and portfolio construction. Her experience includes a tenure as Institutional Market Investment Director where  her responsibilities encompassed direct client management and managing a team of institutional portfolio managers. Danielle joined Bank of America in 2003.

Danielle regularly presents educational and training material to non-profit investment committees and boards, including issues on sustainable and mission-aligned investing, investment governance, investment policy statements, spending policy development and risk management.
 
Danielle earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Connecticut College. She is a CFA^® charterholder, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst professional, and earned the Chartered SRI Counselor℠ designation, as well a the BoardSource Certificate in Nonprofit Board Consulting. She is a member of the CFA^® Institute, CAIA^® Association, CFA^® Society Houston and BoardSource. Danielle volunteers with several non-profit organizations and has held and continues to hold board and committee positions.

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