Diane Garnick (19 January 1967 – ) is a leading American and a leading 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.^[1], is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Investment management, the professional management of various securities (shares, bonds etc) and other assets (e. ... Invesco PLC (Amvescap prior to May 2007, LSE: IVZ, NYSE: IVZ) is an investment management company based in London. ...

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. Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Hempstead, Long Island, New York (USA) founded in 1935 on the basis of the estate of wealthy lumber magnate William Hofstra and widow Kate Davidson. ...

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. Merrill Lynch & Co. ... Invesco PLC (Amvescap prior to May 2007, LSE: IVZ, NYSE: IVZ) is an investment management company based in London. ...

Her Wall Street research focuses on equity derivatives, index investing, exchange traded funds, and quantitative investing as a whole. Elaborate marble facade of NYSE as seen from the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets For other uses, see Wall Street (disambiguation). ... Equity derivatives are financial derivative products whose value is dependent on the value of an underlying share or group of shares. ... Index investing, also called indexing, is a method of passive investing whereby a fund (or individual) buys the same stocks in the same proportions as in a target index. ... Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are a relatively new type of security that exhibits some qualities of a stock and some qualities of a mutual fund. ... A scale for measuring mass A quantitative property is one that exists in a range of magnitudes, and can therefore be measured. ...

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. The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization which attempts to allieviate problems caused by poverty in New York City, New York. ...

Notes

1. ^ http://dianegarnick.com/ladiesinred.html

External links

• A Quick Chat with Indexing Sage Diane Garnick
• Anything but Average; An Investment Strategist's View
• Garnick Live on Bloomberg's Starting Bell
• Diane Garnick research paper: Accounting Changes More Than Just Accounting

• Wall Street Journal: How Market Turmoil Waylaid the ‘Quants’