Joe Staines, executive director, is a portfolio manager and research analyst at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in the Quantitative Solutions team. His research is focused on factor based investing and on robust portfolio construction. He is a lead portfolio manager for Quantitative Solutions custom institutional equity offering and is also part of the portfolio management team for Quantitative Solutions index equity and multi asset alternative strategies in public and institutional vehicles. Joe holds a PhD in Computational Finance from University College London and is a CFA charterholder.​