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MRB was designed to foster idea generation and provide a roadmap for investors in what can often seem like an uncharted macro landscape.

Research Team

Partners
Phillip Colmar
Partner, Global Strategy

Phillip Colmar is Managing Partner and Global Strategist at MRB Partners. Phillip focuses on global multi-asset investment strategy, trading opportunities, and financial market risks. His expertise is in identifying key macro themes/frameworks and building a clear roadmap for investors. Phillip speaks regularly at conferences and is regularly quoted in the financial media …

Mehran Nakhjavani
Partner, Emerging Market Strategy

Mehran Nakhjavani is a partner and helped found MRB in 2010. He has extensive experience in investment research and investment management, specializing in emerging markets and oil-producing economies. Mehran focuses on investment themes arising from the emergence of economies and financial markets outside the developed world. He works with clients to assist portfolio …

Peter Perkins
Partner, Global Strategy & Regional Equities

Peter Perkins is a founding partner. He has extensive experience, both as a strategist and economist. Peter focuses on asset allocation issues and strategy, key drivers of the global economy and capital markets, as well as investment opportunities and risks. He works closely with MRB clients on tactical and strategic asset allocation, assisting them in interpreting and translating macroeconomic …

Warren Smith
Partner, U.S. Strategy

Warren C. Smith is a founding partner. He has extensive experience as an investment strategist. Warren focuses on the U.S. and other developed markets and works closely with MRB clients to assist them in portfolio strategy decisions. He is responsible for coordinating the MRB Weekly Macro Strategy Report. Prior to forming MRB, Warren was minority owner and Managing Editor of BCA Research Inc. He was a major contributor …

Strategists & Analysts
Prajakta Bhide
Strategist, U.S.

Prajakta Bhide joined MRB in 2017 and specializes in the U.S. economy, policy and asset markets. Her areas of expertise include business cycles, monetary policy, and macroeconomic modeling.  …

Santiago Espinosa
Strategist, Foreign Exchange & Absolute Returns

Santiago Espinosa joined MRB in 2010, and specializes in foreign exchange strategy and absolute-return investment ideas. He is responsible for driving MRB’s house view on developed markets foreign exchange …

Mazen Issa
Strategist, Fixed Income

Mazen Issa joined MRB in 2024. He is based in New York and leads the global fixed income strategy for MRB. Mazen has extensive sell-side and buy-side experience in cross asset strategy and trading …

Amr Abdel Khalek
Strategist, Emerging markets

Amr Abdel Khalek joined MRB in 2011 and specializes in emerging markets (EM). Along with Mehran Nakhjavani, he is responsible for driving MRB’s house view on EM ex-China economies and financial assets …

Arshiya Malik
Analyst, Developed markets

Arshiya Malik joined MRB in 2023, and specializes on developed market economies and policy. She supports the research team with data analysis and forecasting of regional economic trends and financial markets …

Salvatore Ruscitti
Strategist, U.S. Equities

Salvatore Ruscitti joined MRB in 2011. He has extensive experience in both top-down and bottom-up equity research. Mr. Ruscitti is responsible for MRB’s U.S. equity strategy and sector views. He draws together the firm’s macroeconomic …

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