General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> July 27, 2010
Bryan Williams is the Founder and President of The Rockwater Group, an investment consulting firm specializing in sophisticated municipal bond allocation strategies. Mr. Williams has over 30 years of investment management experience. He launched an investment advisory practice in the early 1980s, working with senior management executives of Fortune 100 companies in Southern California. He converted to a fee-only practice in 1998, serving family offices and high-net worth investors. During the early 2000s, Mr. Williams expanded his work with global academic leaders in finance to develop multi-period stochastic allocation systems that allowed him to implement sophisticated asset-liability management programs for his clients. He created the first multi-strategy, municipal arbitrage fund of funds in 2005. Mr. Williams has chaired several municipal bond conferences in New York City, and he has been featured in articles addressing advanced municipal bond investment strategies in The Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine, The Bond Buyer, Dow Jones Hedge Fund Trades and EuroMoney magazine. He received a B.S. in finance from the University of Southern California in 1975. Profile
TWST: Please give us a history of Rockwater and tell us why you selected the municipal bond market as a focus.
Mr. Williams: We've been around more than 10 years. First we started as a multiple-family
