Kari Vatanen is a former chief investment officer at Veritas Pension Insurance Company in Finland. Before that, he has worked as a head of cross-asset derivatives as well as a chief risk officer at Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, and as a quantitative analyst in various investment organizations. Kari has spent over 10 years trading derivatives in the equity markets, rates, FX, and commodities, and developing alternative risk premia strategies. He holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Mathematics from Aalto University and a M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Helsinki. He is a CFA Charterholder and holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Portfolio Management and he has written articles on asset allocation, risk management, and alternative risk premia investing.