Anthony “Tony” Roth is Chief Investment Officer for Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc, the investment advisory arm of M&T Bank Corporation. Tony plays a key role in developing and delivering investment services for our wealth, institutional, and brokerage clients. He provides strategic direction for the firm’s asset management investment activities including asset allocation, manager research, and portfolio construction. Tony leads the firm’s Investment Committee.
Tony joined Wilmington Trust in 2014 with extensive experience in wealth management and investment advisory. Prior to joining Wilmington Trust, Tony was Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for Aquitaine Management in New York. Before that, he worked for UBS Wealth Management Americas as CIO, where he founded the Ultra High-Net-Worth Chief Investment Office. Earlier in his career, he was founder and co-head of the Advisory Services Division at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., served as director of the Family Wealth Group at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., and was a tax attorney at Cleary Gottlieb in New York.
Tony earned his law degree from Harvard Law School. He holds a master’s degree in French and International Tax Law from Université Panthéon Sorbonne, and graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Philosophy.
September 19, 2018— The past few months have been dominated by news flow on trade, but the U.S./China trade spat has stolen the most headlines and dominated market sentiment. Emerging market equities and the U.S. dollar have fluctuated in concert with U.S./China trade developments. (Harsher headlines have been accompanied by safe-haven flows to the U.S. dollar, which have put extra downward pressure on EM equities and currencies.
In the September issue of our monthly flagship publication, we feature:
On the Record by Chief Investment Officer Tony Roth discusses how, despite the stock market’s continued positive performance, rising political and trade risks require a shift in portfolios.
In Focus provides a look at growing levels of household debt—in particular, student loan debt—and what it indicates for consumer spending and the U.S. economy.
In the July/August issue of our monthly flagship publication, we feature:
On the Record by Chief Investment Officer Tony Roth, Don’t Climb a Wall of Worry.
In Focus provides a look at the flattening yield curve—what it’s telling us now and whether it is likely to be the usual precursor of recession.
Investment positioning and asset class positioning updates.
There is rarely, if ever, a time when investors are not faced with a slew of concerns that keeps them up at night.
