Thomas Finnerty

Thomas Finnerty is a senior research analyst in Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions' Manager Research team, overseeing the firm's investments in discretionary and systematic macro strategies.

Mr. Finnerty had been with K2 Advisors, an alternative investment firm that merged with Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions in 2024. His initial focus was on credit, relative value and event driven strategies and subsequently across multiple other hedge fund strategies. He relocated to the firm's London office in 2013 to cover managers in the region across hedge fund strategies and was subsequently named Head of Global Macro in 2019. Mr. Finnerty relocated back to the United States in 2022.

Prior to joining K2, Mr. Finnerty worked as an investment associate for Chapin Hill Advisors, a private wealth manager, from 2008 to 2009. Before that, he was a middle office trade analyst at BGC Partners, Cantor Fitzgerald's interdealer broker-dealer, until mid-2008.

Mr. Finnerty received a Master of Arts degree in economics from Fordham University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and graduated cum laude from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.