Michael J. Scafati, CFA
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer

Mike is the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Signum Investments, a US-based long/short defensive core equity fund manager that systematically applies quantitative and machine learning techniques to traditional fundamental active management.

With over three decades of experience in  both fundamental and quantitative investment management, Mike has built a reputation as a successful portfolio manager, risk manager, and portfolio construction expert.

Previously, Mike managed $50B of assets across 36 mandates, 330 institutional clients, dozens of taxable SMA platforms, and millions of retail clients for Putnam Investments.  He held positions on the Investment Policy, Portfolio Oversight, Risk Management, Equity Best Practices, Execution and Soft Dollar, Corporate Governance, New Fund Development, Strategic Relationships, NYSE, Investment Technology, Y2K, and Disaster Recovery Committees, in addition to Investment Associate and MBA program oversight. He was a first adopter of quantitative modeling in the international equity space, including helping design and implement both the quantitative alpha model that would end up being spun out as PanAgora and the quantitative risk model that Barra would eventually adopt as GEM.

Early in his career, Mike held positions with Goldman Sachs and A.G. Edwards. Mike holds an M.B.A. in Financial Management from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T., a B.A. in Finance from Georgetown University, and is a CFA charter holder.