“Volatility in Digital Assets and How Fiduciaries can Manage it”

Guest Speaker: Ben McMillan, Chief Investment Officer, IDX Digital Assets

Ben McMillan is a principal and founder, and the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Technology Officer, of IDX Insights, LLC and IDX Digital Assets, LLC. He is also a founder and the portfolio manager of RG Liquid Alts, LP. Previously, he was the portfolio manager at Ramsey Quantitative Systems Inc. (RQSI) where he developed and managed the RQSI Small Cap Hedged Equity Mutual fund. Prior to that he served as co-portfolio manager (and co-creator) of the Van Eck Long/Short Equity Index mutual fund since July 2012. Prior to joining Van Eck Global, Mr. McMillan worked at Lyster Watson & Co. where he developed and launched the Lyster Watson Long/Short Equity Replication strategy in 2009. Additionally, between 2007 and 2012, Mr. McMillan served as a co-founder of the cloud-based 13F analytics platform, AlphaStratus, which was acquired by eVestment in 2012. Mr. McMillan holds an MSc in Econometrics from the London School of Economics as well as an MA and BA in Economics from Boston University. In the digital assets space, Ben began buying Bitcoin in 2011, and launched two Bitcoin nodes over the next few years. This past year, he co-created the first risk-managed digital assets indices alongside S&P Dow Jones.

IDX Digital Assets is a quantitative asset manager in the crypto and digital asset space. IDX has developed the world’s first suite of Risk Managed Digital Currency Indices Priced by S&P Dow Jones, and has recently launched the first Risk-Managed Digital Asset trusts, the IDX Risk-Managed Bitcoin Trust and the IDX Risk-Managed Ethereum Trust. IDX is also scheduled to launch the first ever risk-weighted DeFi index with S&P in August 2021.