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Gary A. Lasman
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Mr. Gary A. Lasman, CFA MBA, is a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Massachusetts Financial Services Co. He is also an Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager of the firm's municipal bond portfolios.
He joined the firm in 2002 as a municipal fixed income research analyst and has over 35 years of industry experience.
Prior to that, Mr. Lasman served an assistant portfolio manager and senior municipal analyst for Liberty Funds Group.
Before that, he served as vice president in the municipal group for Thomson Financial Services; and senior account manager for The Industrial Indemnity Financial Corporation.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.
He is a member of the CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research), Boston Security Analysts Society, Inc., Boston Municipal Analysts Forum; and the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.
Former positions of Gary A. Lasman
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Massachusetts Financial Services Co.
 Massachusetts Financial Services Co. Investment ManagersFinance MFS focuses on identifying businesses with durable, long-term value through their active investment platform. The firm uses various methods to evaluate securities, including fundamental analysis and quantitative analysis. | Analyst-Fixed Income | 2016-12-31 |
Liberty Funds Group, Inc.
 Liberty Funds Group, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Liberty Funds Group focuses on the managed futures and commodities industry. Their Liberty Wealth Protection strategy is designed to protect the purchasing power of the US dollar. The strategy represents the firm's best ideas and cumulative experience and, like other managed futures vehicles, does not correlate to the performance of stock and bond markets. The strategy seeks to deliver outsized returns during periods of economic duress. In managing the strategy, Liberty Funds Group uses proprietary computerized multi-time scale mathematical models which trade on timeframes from a few hours to a year. These models trade a basket of futures and options markets and generate alpha from multiple, non-correlated sources such as trends, short-term mean reversion and expansion and option time decay. The trend following or directional component of the strategy is robust and adaptive. It allows for market behavior to establish time scales most suitable for capturing material price moves in a particular market. The directional component has a slight bias towards trades that would participate in rising commodity prices, rising interest rates and a weakening US dollar. The short term component considers tick data across multiple time frames from 4 days to 50 days to locate trading opportunities. The model looks for set ups that would tend to signal a break out from an area of price congestion. It also searches for an opportunity to profit from a trending market as it shows signs of reverting to a mean. The option component is built around two concepts: (1) trend following signals are false more often than they are true and (2) the time value of an option declines rapidly as it approaches expiration. Combining these concepts together with a futures based option defense strategy creates a unique stand-alone trading strategy. | Analyst-Fixed Income | 2001-12-30 |
Industrial Indemnity Holdings, Inc.
 Industrial Indemnity Holdings, Inc. Property/Casualty InsuranceFinance Underwrites workers compensation insurance | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Thomcorp Holdings, Inc.
 Thomcorp Holdings, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides information, news, and technology solutions to the financial community | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
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Massachusetts Financial Services Co.
Massachusetts Financial Services Co. Investment ManagersFinance MFS focuses on identifying businesses with durable, long-term value through their active investment platform. The firm uses various methods to evaluate securities, including fundamental analysis and quantitative analysis. | Finance |
Liberty Funds Group, Inc.
Liberty Funds Group, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Liberty Funds Group focuses on the managed futures and commodities industry. Their Liberty Wealth Protection strategy is designed to protect the purchasing power of the US dollar. The strategy represents the firm's best ideas and cumulative experience and, like other managed futures vehicles, does not correlate to the performance of stock and bond markets. The strategy seeks to deliver outsized returns during periods of economic duress. In managing the strategy, Liberty Funds Group uses proprietary computerized multi-time scale mathematical models which trade on timeframes from a few hours to a year. These models trade a basket of futures and options markets and generate alpha from multiple, non-correlated sources such as trends, short-term mean reversion and expansion and option time decay. The trend following or directional component of the strategy is robust and adaptive. It allows for market behavior to establish time scales most suitable for capturing material price moves in a particular market. The directional component has a slight bias towards trades that would participate in rising commodity prices, rising interest rates and a weakening US dollar. The short term component considers tick data across multiple time frames from 4 days to 50 days to locate trading opportunities. The model looks for set ups that would tend to signal a break out from an area of price congestion. It also searches for an opportunity to profit from a trending market as it shows signs of reverting to a mean. The option component is built around two concepts: (1) trend following signals are false more often than they are true and (2) the time value of an option declines rapidly as it approaches expiration. Combining these concepts together with a futures based option defense strategy creates a unique stand-alone trading strategy. | Finance |
Thomcorp Holdings, Inc.
Thomcorp Holdings, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides information, news, and technology solutions to the financial community | Commercial Services |
Industrial Indemnity Holdings, Inc.
Industrial Indemnity Holdings, Inc. Property/Casualty InsuranceFinance Underwrites workers compensation insurance | Finance |
The University of Chicago
 The University of Chicago Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
University of California
 University of California Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
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