CFA (1985); BComm (Hons, 1980), University of Manitoba, Canada.
Dan is a managing director and the chief investment officer of RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM), the Royal Bank of Canada's wholly owned investment management subsidiary. He is responsible for the firm’s overall direction of investment policy and asset management. He also sits on the board of RBC GAM Inc. BlueBay Asset Management LLP, and two other RBC-affiliated companies. In December 2010, Dan joined the board of BlueBay Asset Management following its merger with RBC GAM. He also sits on the board of RBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited, is a member of the RBC Pension Investment Strategy Committee and chairs the RBC GAM Investment Strategy Committee (RISC) among others. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, he was managing director, capital markets research, and chief strategist at RBC Capital Markets. Dan had previously worked with the Canadian Trend and Cycle Department at RBC Dominion Securities (RBC DS), where he chaired the RBC DS Investment Strategy Committee and was responsible for the firm’s top-down research including its global economic, quantitative and technical research teams. Dan started his career in the investment industry in 1980 as an analyst with a Canadian insurance company.