CEO & CIO
Jacques Lussier is currently CEO and Chief Investment Officer of IPSOL Capital, a firm dedicated to the development and management of efficient portfolio solutions for institutional investors. He is a former academician at HEC Montreal and has worked within the financial industry for the last twenty years.
Prior to IPSOL Capital, Jacques worked 18 years at Desjardins Global Asset Management (DGAM) where he was Chief Investment Strategist until March 2013. During his career, Jacques has been involved in most segments of the asset management industry: portfolio policy and global asset allocation for institutional clients, funds of funds management both alternatives and traditional, research leading to product design and product management in the equity, commodity and asset allocation space and management of a high net worth platform. In the early 2000s, he managed the largest fund of hedge funds in Canada ($6.5 billion).
Jacques earned a M.Sc. in Finance from HEC Montreal and a Ph.D. in International Business from the University of South Carolina. He is a CFA and was president of Montreal CFA Society from 2013 to 2015. He is a board member of Retraite Québec and president of its investment committee. He is also a member of the advisory board of InvestorLit and the author of the book “Successful Investing Is A Process” published by Wiley and Bloomberg Press in December 2012 and co-author with Hugues Langlois of “Rational Investing” published by Colombia University Press in March 2017. He is currently working on a third book. He also wrote two series of short educational documents to support investment advisors and retail investors on behalf of CFA Montreal. (www.cfamontreal.org/en/fichesinvestisseurs).