DuLac Capital Advisory Veteran-Owned Institutional Investment Consulting

Institutional investors and capital allocators face a common set of challenges — cash drag, redemption liquidity, beta management, and index-hugging risk. Left unaddressed, these "potholes" quietly erode risk-adjusted P&L. DuLac Capital Advisory exists to find them before they do.

What We Do

We specialize in strategic and technical consultation for capital allocators, with a focus on three areas:

• Beta Management & ETF/Index Solutions — Justifying active management fees over the weighted average ETF cost of ~20bps demands a disciplined approach. We help portfolio managers design core-satellite frameworks that deploy liquid, low-tracking-error ETFs to manage beta and liquidity risk — freeing your risk budget for your best alpha-generating ideas. Critically, our counsel is not beholden to any particular index provider or broker-dealer, ensuring our recommendations reflect your portfolio's best interest, not a distribution relationship.

• Tech-Enabled Investment Process Consulting — We're not a PowerPoint firm. We partner with investment teams and capital allocators to leverage data insight, automation, and independent validation to reduce risks from misinformed assumptions, inaccurate data, and behavioral bias. We are software agnostic — equally capable across Morningstar Direct, Bloomberg API and GBT, Preqin, FactSet, and S&P Capital IQ, among others — so our process adapts to your infrastructure, not the other way around. This independence is especially critical as GenAI and LLMs become embedded across the investment process — from asset research and competitor analysis to portfolio reviews. These tools offer real efficiency gains, but they introduce a risk most firms aren't yet accounting for: hallucination risk. A confident, plausible-sounding but factually wrong output from an LLM, left unchecked, can quietly corrupt an investment thesis. DuLac Capital Advisory serves as that independent check — validating and verifying AI-assisted work before flawed assumptions reach your P&L.

• Strategic Policy Insights — From GenAI adoption and ESG integration to responsible Oil & Gas investing, we help institutional investors and policymakers bridge the gap between policy and practice — meeting both fiduciary and municipal obligations.

DuLac Capital Advisory is your independent validator before your investment process "rocket" launches. To preserve that independence and eliminate conflicts of interest, our firm does not invest in any funds or strategies featured in our Thought Pieces — ensuring that every insight we provide is driven by evidence and your best interest, never by position.

Professional Career Summary

Principal & Founder | DuLac Capital Advisory L.L.C. August 2023 – Present

• Lead an institutional investment due diligence & ETF/Index product consulting firm specializing in mapping market risk factors and unintended economic behavioral biases that can erode their intended market exposure.

• Author of macro-thematic research with micro-structure implementation guidelines. Notably developed a specialized "Mideast ETF/Index Product Delta Neutral Barbell Strategy" to navigate regional volatility in early 2026, producing 13% in excess risk-adjusted returns versus benchmark.

• Developed the DuLac Capital Advisory Index Solutions Due Diligence App, a tech-enabled platform providing institutional-grade due diligence for index products.

• Previously consulted for professional money managers on investment policy development and portfolio implementation, consistently delivering alpha (e.g., 5% excess return vs. benchmark in 2022).

BlackRock | Vice President, iShares ETFs & Index Investments

• Provided tailored investment strategies and portfolio construction guidance for Asset Managers, Endowments, and Family Offices.

• Delivered portfolio recommendation for using iShares $17B AUM Tier 1 & Tier 2 cap structure for core-satellite beta management; idea helped reduce credit duration risk factor by 25%.

• Leveraged the Aladdin API to conduct deep ETF analysis and risk management, helping institutional clients optimize asset allocation and mitigate structural risks.

PIMCO | Investment Consultant, ETF & Index Investing

• Counseled Liability-Driven Investors (LDI) on navigating complex market risks and fixed-income volatility.

• Developed bespoke insights for global FI asset managers and UHNW PWAs and ETF asset managers regarding “barbell” asset allocation strategies with PIMCO Active and index FI ETFs; enabled them to capture the energy sector credit basis relative to the index tightening in 2016. 

Morgan Stanley | Vice President / Associate / Analyst

• Gained foundational experience in multi-cap structure investing, M&A, and portfolio management.

• Maintained full-time responsibilities within capital markets while concurrently earning an MBA from Columbia University.

Veteran | United States Navy

• Served in the U.S. Navy, gaining core leadership (as Master-at-Arms for SpecOps recruit division), discipline, and technical training that provided the foundation for a career in global finance.

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