Ioulia Tretiakova has a Master of Science degree in Mathematics with a finance emphasis from the University of Toronto; a Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA) from the CFA Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia; Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation from the Global Association of Risk Professionals Inc. (GARP), Jersey City, New Jersey.

Ioulia's work as a quantitative analyst, risk and style specialist at Guardian Capital Advisors LP, Toronto, and Alliance Capital Management LP, New York, combined with financial, quantitative and computer skills in modeling, portfolio construction, optimization, immunization, derivatives, and stochastic calculus gave her a disciplined foundation as an international equity portfolio manager and co-developer of a proprietary multi-factor equity management platform. Ioulia developed and implemented a tactical asset allocation capability using ETFs, among the first in North America.

Ioulia is the Director of Quantitative Strategies at PŮR Investing (http://www.purinvesting.com/).