Jay Rose, Managing Director & Head of Portfolio Management Jay Rose oversees StepStone's investments in U.S. based middle and large market managers as well as global distressed debt and equity and is responsible for the firm’s portfolio management and analytics. Mr. Rose sits on the Investment Committee and Management Committee and is a member of StepStone Group’s Research Team.

Prior to joining StepStone, Mr. Rose was a Managing Director at PCG Asset Management where he managed institutional relationships with multi-billion dollar public pension systems, working with both private equity investment staff and Boards of Trustees. Prior to that, Mr. Rose was a Quantitative Research Analyst with Laffer Investments where he conducted economic research, evaluated fiscal and monetary policies, and employed regression analysis as inputs into the portfolio decision-making process. Mr. Rose also executed trades for all equity and balanced portfolios and was responsible for the portfolio management analytics platform.

Before Laffer, Mr. Rose worked in the fixed income group of Boston Partners Asset Management as a Quantitative Analyst. Mr. Rose played an integral role in all aspects of the day-to-day management of $1.5 billion across Core and Core-Plus institutional fixed income strategies. Mr. Rose was responsible for managing interest rate risk in order to ensure neutral exposure to all segments of the yield curve. Mr. Rose also traded government and agency debt and was in charge of internal portfolio management systems.

Mr. Rose received his BS in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire and is a CFA charterholder. Mr. Rose is a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and CFA Society of San Diego, Inc.

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