Dr. Christopher Meredith

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Chris Meredith is a senior visiting lecturer in the Finance Department at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His teaching portfolio includes Applied Portfolio Management, Equity Investment Research Analysis, Investment Immersion, and Natural Language Processing in Business. He serves as the chief investment officer for Tax-Smart Strategies at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where he provides investment leadership and develops tax-smart capabilities for active index separately managed accounts (SMAs) and exchange-traded fund (ETF) model portfolios. Meredith leads cross-functional teams and partners with quantitative technology groups at J.P. Morgan to expand investment offerings on their tax management platform, enhancing scalability. Before joining J.P. Morgan, he was the chief investment officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM), where he managed investment functions, portfolio strategy research, and trading operations. He previously served as a senior research analyst for the Systematic Equity Team at Bear Stearns Asset Management and has held a technology director position at Oracle. He earned his MBA from Cornell University and holds a Master of Arts in Financial Mathematics from Columbia University. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Research Interests

Courses

NBA 5120 - Applied Portfolio Management NBA 4120/NBA 5220 - Equity Investment Research Analysis BANA 5210 - Natural Language Processing in Finance NBA 5121 - Seminar in Equity Research - Cayuga Fund

Requirements for Cornell University

Master Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Listening
Required:15
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related field
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Specialization Notes

Department of Architecture