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Senior Vice President & Portfolio Manager

Julie is Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager forIndexIQ. Prior to joining IndexIQ, Julie was a Portfolio Manager at Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM)/DB Advisors for over 9 years. Julie was a Director and Portfolio Manager for various U.S. and Global strategies, which included the DWS Disciplined Market Neutral Fund, the DWS Blue Chip Fund, both the DWS Disciplined Long Short Growth and Value Funds, as well as a number of other institutional and sub-advised funds. The funds’ strategies used multi-factor quantitative models based on comparing companies on fundamental value and growth, as well as market sentiment signals in a disciplined risk managed process.

Prior to becoming a Portfolio Manager, Julie was a productdeveloper at FactSet Research Systems. In this role, she worked on developing and enhancing features on existing portfolio analytics products. Using the experience she gained in her earlier role at BARRA, Inc., she also worked with engineers on developing an open model equity risk analysis application that allowed clients to import user defined risk models.

Julie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Connecticut and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration in Quantitative Finance and Economics from New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.