Innealta Continues Evolving to Better Serve Advisors and Institutions

AUSTIN, Texas, June 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Innealta Capital announces that Vito Sciaraffia, PhD, has joined the firm as Vice President of Investment Strategy. Working with Innealta's Investment Committee, Dr. Sciaraffia will utilize the firm's proprietary quantitative models to collaborate in the management of investment portfolios and strategies. Additionally, he will work with institutions, distribution partners, and financial advisors to further their understanding of the firm's investment philosophy and process, portfolio solutions, and investment performance.

"Vito is a highly credentialed, knowledgeable, and experienced addition to our Innealta team," said Jeff Montgomery, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Innealta Capital. "He will help us continue to evolve our boutique firm by adding further depth and expertise to our investment team and to the management of our unique portfolio solutions." 

Dr. Sciaraffia will work directly with Gerald Buetow, PhD, CFA, Chief Investment Officer for Innealta Capital, and the entire Innealta team. He most recently served as a Senior Researcher at Dimensional Fund Advisors, where he conducted empirical asset pricing research, wrote academically grounded papers, collaborated in the design of investment strategies, and was responsible for delivering technical presentations to colleagues and clients. Prior to that, Dr. Sciaraffia was an Assistant Professor of Finance in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at Citigroup and a risk analyst at JP Morgan.

Dr. Sciaraffia holds a PhD and an MS in business from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition, he holds an MA in mathematics—with an emphasis on stochastic processes—from UC Berkeley, an MBA and a Master in Finance from the University of Chile, and an engineering degree and a BS in economics and management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

"We are always seeking opportunities to better serve our clients," said Mark Mowrey, CFA, Senior Vice President of Innealta Capital. "Vito will play a key role in this ongoing initiative by helping us continue to strengthen our capabilities, resources, and offerings."

Innealta was acquired by AFAM Capital in 2009. Since then, the firm has been committed to becoming the most respected, sophisticated, and largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) strategist in the industry.

"Having thoroughly studied the managed ETF space, I am impressed by Innealta's expertise, investment solutions, and its leadership position in the industry," said Dr. Sciaraffia. "I am eager to work with my new colleagues to further enhance our investment strategies and expand our suite of solutions to better serve our current and future clients."

About Innealta
Innealta Capital is a quantitative asset management firm specializing in the active management of portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The firm offers a diverse range of portfolio options that includes pure fixed income, equity rotation, and whole-portfolio multi-asset class portfolios. Though each portfolio and the strategies that define them are unique in design, all are rooted in the firm's broader goal of achieving optimal risk-relative returns over longer-term investment horizons.

We believe Innealta's distinct competitive advantage is the effectiveness of its proprietary quantitative framework and its ability to execute investment strategies that attempt to optimize the risk-reward trade-offs within and among a range of broad asset classes.

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