Gregg S. Fisher


Gregg S. Fisher, CFA, is an American investment manager. He recently founded Quent Capital and serves as Portfolio Manager for the asset management firm’s global small company long/short equity investment strategy. He was also the Founder and Head of Quantitative Research and Portfolio Strategy of Gerstein Fisher, an investment management and advisory firm that became part of People’s United Bank in 2016.

Early life and education

Fisher was raised by his father, a men’s clothing store owner, in a Jewish family in Queens, New York. He holds a degree in finance from the University at Buffalo, earned a CFA designation, obtained a certificate in financial planning from New York University and studied at Harvard Business School.

Investment career

Fisher founded quantitative investment firm Gerstein Fisher in 1993. By 2006, he had become one of the first investment managers to offer factor investing. From 2010-14, Fisher launched factor-based mutual funds in the global growth equity and real estate investment trust categories.
Fisher collaborates on research with academics including Sheridan Titman. He founded the Gerstein Fisher Research Center in 2009. Some of Fisher’s largest contributions to investment science include conducting research that quantifies the value-add of the investment advisor, replicates hedge fund returns through more liquid, transparent investment strategies, and quantifies the excess returns attributable to the small country factor.
In 2016, with over $3 billion in assets under management, Fisher sold Gerstein Fisher to People’s United Bank, expanding the bank into quantitative investing and becoming Lead Portfolio Manager, Head of Quantitative Research and Portfolio Strategy for their investment division.
In 2018, Fisher was named to the University at Buffalo's Board of Trustees and is now Chair of the endowment. Through his substantial financial contributions, Fisher established the Fisher Research Collaborative in the University at Buffalo School of Management to encourage multidisciplinary research collaboration, in part by providing students and faculty access to essential sources of data and analytics.
In 2018, Fisher began hosting a podcast, The Q Factor with Gregg Fisher, exploring with leading thinkers from various fields how quantitative data is reshaping all corners of our world.
In 2018, Fisher launched a family office for his personal family assets. In 2020, he launched Quent Capital, an asset management firm focused on global innovation.

Selected publications

Fisher lives with his wife and their two children in Scarsdale, New York. Fisher is an avid, lifelong drummer, which Barron's explains "tickles the math area of his brain". Fisher taught drumming to his son.