Diane Garnick

Diane Garnick (19 January 1967 – ) is an American investment manager currently working for Invesco. She is the founder of the Ladies in Red, an organization to raise the profile of single women at charity events.,

Biography

Garnick was born in New York. She was identified as a top scholar in elementary school and competed throughout the United States as a math and science champion in the early 1970s. A teenage mother, she did not return to high school until her daughter was two years old. She went on to earn her degree at Hofstra University. She is now divorced with two grown children.

Wall Street career

Garnick was one of the youngest people ever be named Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and appeared on the cover of their annual report in 1999. Garnick and her team are consistently named to the Institutional Investor all star team. Garnick is the Investment Strategist at Invesco, one of the world's largest asset management companies.

Her Wall Street research focuses on equity derivatives, index investing, exchange traded funds, and quantitative investing as a whole.

Philanthropy

Diane is the founder of the "Ladies in Red", a group dedicated to raising the profile of single women at charity events, which are often organized around couples. There are branches in several cities, and the group tries to focus on women's and children's issues.

Garnick is highly supportive of charities that advance the welfare of children, especially direct support to children who are physically ill and/or socially challenged. She supports the Red Sox Foundation, which builds baseball fields in greater Boston for underprivlidged children. She is also involved in the Robin Hood Foundation.

External links

• "A Quick Chat with Indexing Sage Diane Garnick". Index Funds Advisors.
• "Anything but Average; An Investment Strategist's View". Futures Industry Magazine.
• "Garnick Live on Bloomberg's Starting Bell". Invesco.
• "Wall Street Journal: How Market Turmoil Waylaid the 'Quants'" (PDF). GlobalEnergyAnalysts.com.