Yael Eisenthal-Berkovitz

Senior Economist

Contact

  • Boston

Education

    • Columbia University, Ph.D. (with distinction)
    • Tel Aviv University, M.Sc. (summa cum laude)
    • Tel Aviv University, B.A. (magna cum laude)

Yael Eisenthal specializes in matters involving investments, financial markets, and financial institutions, including asset managers, hedge funds, and FinTech firms, on cases spanning a range of markets and financial products.

Dr. Eisenthal has more than two decades of experience as an investment manager, researcher, and consultant, including a background in systematic investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and portfolio strategy at Barclays. She has conducted research and consulted on systematic trading strategies related to fixed income markets, managed futures, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Dr. Eisenthal has also managed risk and product aspects of asset-based securities (ABS) in the consumer credit market. Her work across different asset classes encompasses the multiple facets of systematic investing in financial institutions, hedge funds, and financial technology firms.

In addition to her consulting experience, Dr. Eisenthal has taught courses in investment theory, fixed income, and derivatives at Reichman University in Israel, Boston University, and Boston College.

Dr. Eisenthal has published her research in the Journal of Financial Economics and in AI-related journals such as Neural Computation. Her graduate work focused on the pricing of corporate action risks in credit spreads.