Robert Michaud is Chief Investment Officer and Chief Technology Officer at New Frontier. He is the co-inventor of Michaud Resampled Optimization and has four U.S. patents in portfolio optimization and investment management. He is co-author of Efficient Asset Management: A Practical Guide to Stock Portfolio Optimization and Asset Allocation (Harvard 1998, 2^nd ed. Oxford 2008) and numerous research articles in refereed journals.

As chair of New Frontier’s Investment Policy Committee, Robert is the lead manager of the firm’s institutional global strategic tax-exempt, global strategic tax-sensitive, and global multi-asset strategic income ETF investment strategy portfolios. Robert has over fourteen years’ experience developing, managing, and chairing the New Frontier global strategic ETF portfolios. 

Robert’s research and contributions to applied finance over his decades-long career were recently profiled in WatersTechnology in an article titled, "Rebel Math: Robert and Richard Michaud, New Frontier Advisors," authored by James Rundle. Robert holds a Masters in Mathematics from Boston University and pursued a Ph.D. in finance from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles before joining New Frontier.