Jane Buchan, MA, PhD, CAIA
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO)
Jane Buchan, MA, PhD, CAIA is a Managing Director and firm's Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Jane is responsible for overall business strategy and firm direction. In addition, she is a Sector Specialist responsible for the evaluation and management of fixed income relative value hedge funds in the various PAAMCO portfolios. Jane is also a member of the Investment Management, Risk Management and Account Management Committees. Prior to forming PAAMCO, Jane held various positions ranging from Director of Quantitative Analysis to CIO of non-directional strategies at Collins Associates, an institutional fund of funds and consulting form. She began her career at J.P. Morgan Investment Management in the Capital Markets Group and has numerous professional publications in the field of market neutral and alternative investment strategies. She was Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She currently sits on the Board of the Charted Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). Jane graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Business Economics (Finance) from Harvard University. Jane has twenty-five years experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.
