Portfolio Management

Kyle Schmidt

Director, Quantitative Equity

Kyle Schmidt

About

Kyle oversees portfolio construction, risk management, implementation and client performance communications for NISA’s quantitative equity strategies.

Prior to joining NISA in 2025, he was a member of the Multi-Asset Strategies Group at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, where he led quantitative equity efforts and served on both the investment committee for the Multi-Asset Strategies Group and the portfolio construction committee for the Public Markets Group. During his tenure, he co-led efforts to launch the first internally managed equity market-neutral strategy in 2015, which evolved into an equity extension program surpassing $25 billion in assets under management by 2025. Prior to 2015, Kyle held various roles in quantitative research and analytics. He has more than 10 years of experience managing beta-one and market-neutral strategies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a senior aerospace engineer at FlightSafety Simulation Systems.

He holds B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA in finance and business analytics from Southern Methodist University.

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