Richard Insalaco

Mr. Insalaco is the Senior Investment Officer and Assistant Treasurer in the University of Rochester Investment Office, which manages and invests the University’s endowment and affiliated funds.  Mr. Insalaco’s areas of responsibility include public equity and fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, real assets, venture capital, distressed debt, and cash funds, as well as risk management.  Mr. Insalaco also chairs the University’s Operating Capital committee, which oversees the management and investment of the University’s operating capital.  In addition to these responsibilities, he is the chairman of the Affiliate Pension Investment Committee, which manages the pensions of University affiliates.  He joined the University in 2006, after serving as Senior Financial Analyst / Trader at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, where he worked in the Open Markets Group, from which the Fed implements monetary policy.  In that capacity, he provided advice to senior Federal Reserve and Treasury officials on macroeconomic issues and financial market developments and oversaw the Open Market Desk’s customer trading operations.  Prior to this, Mr. Insalaco briefly worked as an investment banker in the Financial Institutions Group at Smith Barney.  He began his career as a corporate / securities attorney in San Francisco, where he practiced for 7 years before returning to academia to attend business school. 

Mr. Insalaco is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the Rochester CFA Society.  He is also a member of the California, New York, and New Jersey bars, and is the co-author, with (former) U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald, of Note, “Denying the Crime and Pleading Entrapment:  Putting the Federal Law in Order” in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.  Mr. Insalaco serves on several non-profit boards in Rochester.