Fred Dopfel is Strategic Advisor and a member of the Wealthspire Investment Committee.
Fred has worked as an investment professional in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 35 years. He is a recognized authority in the asset management industry and has advised many of the world’s leading institutional investors on portfolio issues and solutions throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. Previously, he was managing director and head of client advisory at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. Fred’s professional experience includes: corporate finance and strategy consulting to Fortune 500 companies; mergers & acquisitions for the financial services industry; reinsurance and alternative risk financing; venture capital; and, asset management advice for pensions, foundations, endowments, sovereign wealth funds and individual investors.
Fred is currently a professor in the School of Business at Dominican University of California, where he teaches courses in investments and other finance-related topics. He has authored numerous papers on total-portfolio investment issues and solutions.
Previous Experience
- Investment Committee Chair, Principal, at Private Ocean Wealth Management
- Managing Director, BlackRock
- Senior Vice President, Zurich Centre Group
Education & Credentials
- PhD, Stanford University, Engineering – Economic Systems
- MS, Stanford University, Operations Research
- BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics
*Please Note: Limitations. The achievement of any professional designation, certification, degree, or license, recognition by publications, media, or other organizations, membership in any professional organization, or any amount of prior experience or success, should not be construed by a client or prospective client as a guarantee that he/she will experience a certain level of results or satisfaction if Wealthspire is engaged, or continues to be engaged, to provide investment advisory services.
