About the Author

Simon Lack spent 23 years with JPMorgan before retiring to manage his own money in 2009. Much of his career with JPMorgan was spent in North American Fixed Income Derivatives and Forward FX trading, a business that he ran successfully through several bank mergers and numerous economic cycles.

He sat on JPMorgan’s investment committee, allocating more than $1 billion to hedge fund managers and founded the JPMorgan Incubator Funds, two private-equity vehicles that took economic stakes in emerging hedge fund managers.

Simon now runs SL Advisors, LLC, an investment firm he found­ed in 2009, where he manages money for himself and clients in a variety of strategies. Simon serves on the Board of Trustees of Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, New Jersey, where he chairs the Investment Committee, and also chairs the Memorial Endowment Trust Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Church in Westfield, New Jersey. Simon is a CFA Charterholder. He grew up in the United Kingdom and moved to the United States in 1982. He lives in Westfield, New Jersey, with his wife and three children.