David Kowalski
Principal
20 years of experience
4 years at Lodestone Wealth
M.B.A., New York University – Stern School of Business
B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Kowalski is a Principal at Lodestone Wealth Trading, where he is Head of Derivatives and Systematic Strategies. In this role, he leads the firm’s research and portfolio management efforts across futures, index derivatives, and options strategies. David Kowalski specializes in the design and execution of systematic trading models, volatility strategies, and risk-managed derivatives portfolios, with a focus on global equity index and macro hedging solutions.
Since joining Lodestone Wealth in 2015, David Kowalski has been instrumental in expanding the firm’s futures and options platform, integrating quantitative research into daily trading and portfolio construction. He also chairs the Derivatives Risk Committee, overseeing implementation of hedging programs for multi-strategy portfolios.
Before Lodestone Wealth, David Kowalski was a Senior Vice President at CME Group, where he focused on index futures and volatility product development, and earlier served as an options strategist at Morgan Stanley.
David Kowalski holds an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a frequent speaker at global derivatives conferences and has published articles on volatility modeling, futures innovation, and systematic options strategies.
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