John DeCaro

John DeCaro, CFA, serves as Founding Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager for Elementum Advisors, LLC.  John has managed a variety of reinsurance and risk-linked investment strategies since 1997.  Prior to Elementum, he co-managed the reinsurance and risk-linked investments team at Stark Investments from September 2005 through November 2009.  John earned a BS in Finance from the University of South Carolina, an MS in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997.  John also co-authored the Catastrophe Bonds chapter of “Alternative Risk Strategies” (2002).  Other career highlights:

• 1/2002 – 08/2005: Director of Cochran, Caronia Securities LLC; jointly responsible for the firm’s asset management activities
• 7/1997 – 12/2001: Head of RLI trading and research at Aon Capital Markets; instrumental in developing Aon’s expertise in the sales, syndication, portfolio management, and trading of
• RLI through his market-making and institutional sales coverage responsibilities
• 6/1995 – 6/1997: Head RLI and financial futures and options trader for Aon’s Financial Risk Management Group; co-managed RLI portfolio