Martin Howard
Senior Vice President - Index Research, Wilshire

Martin Howard joined Wilshire as Senior Vice President – Index Research in August 2021 and has over 15 years’ experience working in quantitative finance. He is responsible for the design of a suite of new digital asset products including pricing, settlement fixes and indices, and their combination with other asset classes. Howard also works on asset allocation portfolios, including thematic investment strategies which are complementary to the ongoing activities with digital assets. In early 2012 he joined FTSE, as a member of the equity research team, with a remit to design alternatively weighted (non-market cap) indices, particularly indices that capture exposures to traditional factors, ESG and climate. At FTSE, he also focused on many non-equity asset classes ranging from derivatives to private equity, FX and commodities. In late 2018 Howard became the research lead on FTSE’s digital asset initiative in which he played a key role in the design of the FTSE’s Digital Asset Index Series. He started his career in finance as an algorithmic trading developer at a fixed income market maker after which he continued to work in the front office at the volatility arbitrage hedge fund, Capstone Investment Advisors. There, Howard worked as a quantitative analyst designing derivative pairs trading strategies in the index variance, volatility and FX space. He holds a BSc (Hons) and an MSc in mathematics and physics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.