Jaimi Goodfriend

Jaimi Goodfriend, CFA, served as a Senior Equity Analyst at Citadel Investment Group in Chicago. She holds an economics degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She began her career in Mergers & Acquisitions at Montgomery Securities in San Francisco and increased the infrastructure services group’s fundamental sellside research coverage while working at First Analysis in Chicago. Her work was published in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, The New York Times, Bloomberg News and her interviews have appeared on CNN and PBS.

To stay current with the advances in financial industry trends and to share her experience with finance ...More students, Jaimi also serves as an adjunct professor teaching hedge fund management and derivatives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at DePaul University in Chicago.

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An accomplished marathoner and experienced stock market analyst, Jaimi has a proven, long distance track record in picking outstanding investments for more than a decade. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in economics and political science at the University of Michigan, she joined the renowned Montgomery Securities in San Francisco as an investment-banking analyst. While there, she worked on a wide range of mega-deals, including The Irvine Company's $1.0 billion buyout of the Irvine Apartment Communities and the Windmere-Durable Holdings, Inc. $315 million acquisition of Black & Decker's Household Products Group.

Subsequently, Jaimi moved on to the First Analysis Corporation in Chicago as their Sellside Equity Research Analyst for institutional investors and the media, including The Wall St. Journal, Dow Jones, Bloomberg News, CNN and CNNfn. From there, she went on to the Balyasny Asset Management as a Hedge Fund Equity Research Analyst and Citadel Investment Group as a Senior Equity Research Analyst. At that point, Jaimi was ready to step up to a management role. She was hired by the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as its Manager of Absolute Return and Fixed Income. With assets of more than $6.4 billion and grants and program-related investments totaling approximately $260 million annually, it's one of the nation's largest private philanthropic foundations.

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