Vitaly Veksler, CFA, is a macro investment professional with 25 years of experience. He is the founder of Beyond Borders Investment Strategies, LLC (BBIS). The firm manages equity portfolios built from single-country exchange-traded funds of nations where stock markets trade at significant discounts to their historical average valuations, usually during major crises. At BBIS, Vitaly aims to earn returns for the firm’s clients and help end country crises by protecting existing jobs and creating new ones within publicly traded companies. Before BBIS, Vitaly was Vice President at BNY Mellon Asset Management. He authored popular quarterly Global Economic & Market Outlook reports for BNY Mellon’s largest institutional clients, such as central banks, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), public and corporate pension plans, university endowments, and foundations. In the reports, he analyzed trends affecting various investment asset classes worldwide and recommended appropriate global portfolio allocations. Previously, Vitaly wrote more than 200 investment reports for portfolio managers at Fidelity Investments and State Street Research (now BlackRock). In the reports, he analyzed trends affecting global equities in the Technology, Alternative Energy, and Energy industries. Vitaly has spoken on global macro and impact investing topics to audiences at events and conferences organized by leading business and academic organizations such as the CFA Society Boston, Asharq/Bloomberg TV, Boston University, Tufts, Cornell, Harvard, and MIT. Articles and interviews with Vitaly have been published on ETF.com, Yahoo Finance, Fidelity.com, The Investors Podcast, Finding Unique Value Podcast, and Advisors Perspectives. Vitaly received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy with a focus on international finance from Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and a Diploma in Management Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence from the Moscow Technical University.