Steven Schoenfeld
Steven Schoenfeld is the CEO of MarketVector Indexes, a leading global index provider for equities, fixed income, hard asset, and digital asset indexes. He develops and implements the business strategy for the company and oversees all aspects of MarketVector’s operations, research and product development, client service, sales, and marketing. Schoenfeld is a 40-year veteran of the investment management and financial services industry. He served in senior fiduciary positions at Northern Trust Corporation, where he oversaw more than USD 300 billion in quantitatively managed global equity and fixed income portfolios, and at Barclays Global Investors, now BlackRock, where he managed more than USD 70 billion in developed and emerging market stock index funds and ETFs.
Steven Schoenfeld Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Chief Executive Officer
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Director of the Division of Market Oversight
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Chief Investment Officer of Global Quantiative Management
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Founder
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Managing Director
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Chief Investment Officer
Academic History
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M.A., International Economics and American Foreign Policy
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Economics and Management, Fulbright Scholar
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B.A., History and Government
Schoenfeld became CEO of MarketVector following its acquisition of BlueStar Indexes in August 2020.
He was the founder and the Chief Investment Officer of BlueStar which maintained a family of indexes for global technology stocks, emerging markets, and Israeli equities and bonds.
BlueStar Indexes is a financial research firm focused on Israeli capital markets and asset classes and global technology themes and sectors.
EARLY CAREER
He was a Managing Partner of Global Index Strategies, a specialized consultancy focusing on asset management, asset allocation, and portfolio management, among others.
He was Director of Division Market Oversight at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
As CIO of Global Quantitative Management at Northern Trust, he was responsible for $300 billion in index equity, index fixed income and quant-active equity strategies invested worldwide.
He also helped launch NTGI's Emerging Markets, and led a team of investment strategists. Before that, he was the Founder of IndexUniverse.com, now ETF.com.
He was Managing Director of Barclays Global Investors, now BlackRock, where he also served as Head of International Equity Index Product Strategy and Index Methodology.
He also led the team at the IFC/World Bank which developed the first investable emerging market indexes and traded Japanese stock index futures on the floor of the Singapore Exchange.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
He has been featured or quoted in Forbes, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, CoinMarketCap, Business Wire, and The Block, among others.
He is the co-author of Mastering Crypto Assets (Wiley 2024), Editor of Active Index Investing (Wiley 2004), co-author of The Pacific-Rim Futures and Options Markets (McGraw-Hill 1992), and co-founder of IndexUniverse.com (now ETF.com).