Peter Borish

{{Short description|American investor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Peter F. Borish | honorific_suffix = | image =  | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | disappeared_date =  | disappeared_place = | disappeared_status = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = *B.A. (Economics), University of Michigan (1981) *M.A. (Public Policy), the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan (1982) | occupation = Investor and trader | years_active = | employer = *Computer Trading Corporation (chairman and CEO) *Charitybuzz (founding investor) | organization = | known_for = *Founding partner and second-in-command at Tudor Investment Corporation *Chairman of OneChicago, LLC *Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles *Founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation *Founding board member of Math for America. | notable_works = | style = | height =  | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | criminal_charge =  | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = Julie Borish | partner =  | children = | parents = | relatives = | callsign = | awards = | website =  | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }} '''Peter F. Borish''' is chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation (CTC), an investment and advisory firm. Borish sits on the board of CIBC Bank USA. He is an investor and advisor to [https://www.citrini.com/ Citrini] as well as an independent director on the board of [https://rmbfunds.com/ RMB Funds].

Previously, through CTC, Borish was chief strategist of Quad Group and its affiliated companies. In his role, Borish was engaged in recruiting new talent for Quad and working with the founding partners on business strategy. In addition, he helped traders develop a methodology to enhance their performance by serving as a trading coach. Borish is chairman and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation (CTC), and a current investor and advisor to 444 Capital.

Borish is also a founding investor in Charitybuzz.

Borish formerly worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was founding partner and second-in-command at Tudor Investment Corporation, was chairman of OneChicago, LLC, and was chairman of the non-profits Foundation for the Study of Cycles and The Institute for Financial Markets.

He is also a founding board member of both the Robin Hood Foundation and Math for America.

==Education== Borish earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1981.<ref name="mathforamerica1">{{cite web|url=https://www.mathforamerica.org/about/board/peter-borish |title=Peter Borish |publisher=Math for America |date= |access-date=April 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="umich1">{{cite web |url=https://www.lsa.umich.edu/econ/alumni/economicsleadershipcouncilelc/peterborish_ci |title=Economics Leadership Council (ELC) | Economics | University of Michigan |publisher=Lsa.umich.edu |date= |access-date=April 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725054243/http://www.lsa.umich.edu/econ/alumni/economicsleadershipcouncilelc/peterborish_ci |archive-date=July 25, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also earned an M.A. in public policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan in 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title=Fighting poverty like an IPPSter |publisher=University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy|date=May 2, 2014|url=http://fordschool.umich.edu/news/2014/fighting-poverty-ippster }}</ref><ref name=mean>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rXJjltRFSpUC&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=PA25 |title=Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality |author=Terry Burnham |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |date= 2008|access-date=April 21, 2014|isbn=9780470440629 }}</ref><ref name="umich1"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ze_hAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=PA113 |title=Michigan Ensian |publisher= UM Libraries|date= 1981|access-date=April 22, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/committee/ "Committee for the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy"], ''Gerald Ford School of Public Policy''</ref>

==Career==

Peter Borish has served as the Chief Strategist of Quad Group LLC, an investment management firm, since 2013. Additionally, Borish has served as the president and CEO of Computer Trading Corporation, an actively managed fund focused on macroeconomic investing, since 1995, where he created the trade and risk management models his company uses to manage assets in the derivatives market. Borish also served as the CEO and member of the board of Twinfields Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund focused on the fixed income sector, from 2005 to 2008.<ref name="umich1" /><ref name="google2">{{cite book|author=Kennedy Mitchell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWLigLcTSIIC&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=PA260|title=Single Stock Futures: An Investor's Guide|date=2003|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780471267621|access-date=April 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="google1">{{cite book|author=Samuel A. Schreiner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvwsAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=PT40|title=The World According to Cycles: How Recurring Forces Can Predict the Future and Change Your Life|date=2013|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.|isbn=9781628730722|access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.onechicago.com/?p=522 "ONECHICAGO announces Peter Borish as Chairman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203000051/http://www.onechicago.com/?p=522 |date=December 3, 2013 }}, ''ONECHICAGO'', October 7, 2004</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Michael W. Covel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=houtgCueMg8C&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=RA1-PA249|title=Trading the Trend (Collection)|date=2012|publisher=FT Press|isbn=9780133094633|access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref><ref name="bw">{{cite magazine|title=Peter Borish: Executive Profile & Biography|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=5554129&privcapId=10037819&previousCapId=36118&previousTitle=GEEKNET%20INC|magazine=Business Week|access-date=April 22, 2014}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Borish was a founding partner of Tudor Investment Corporation, a global investment firm, where he served as the director of research from 1985 to 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Clarke|first=Paul|authorlink=|date=21 August 2014|title=Tudor Investment Corporation's co-founder on how to be a great hedge fund trader|url=https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/182007/tudors-co-founder-great-hedge-fund-trader/|publisher=EFinancialCareers}}</ref><ref name=mean/><ref name="tud">{{cite book|author=Sebastian Mallaby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JklJ0ZoJtmAC&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=PT14|title=More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite|date=2010|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101457214|access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref><ref name="wiz">{{cite book|author=Jack D. Schwager|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LITaiIb05bAC&q=%22Peter+Borish%22&pg=PA128|title=Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Traders|date=2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781118616024|access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref><ref name="roose">{{cite magazine|last=Roose|first=Kevin|date=August 29, 2012|title=Tudor's Dynasty: A Time Capsule of Wall Street's Lost Trader Culture|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/wall-streets-lost-culture.html|magazine=New York Magazine|access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref>

In addition to the foregoing leadership positions, Borish has also served as a board advisor of ValueStream Labs, an accelerator for financial services technologies, since 2013 and as a trustee of RMB Investors Trust, an open-end management investment company since 2015.

Borish has engaged in substantial philanthropy and nonprofit work, having helped found, and, since 1988, having served on the board of directors of, the Robin Hood Foundation,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> which funds New York City educational projects for disadvantaged children. Additionally, since 1991, Borish has been a trustee of the Institute for Financial Markets (IFM), a nonprofit dedicated to participating in the development of standards and fostering best practices initiatives in the financial services industry. From 2006 until 2013, Borish served as a member of the board of directors at Charitybuzz, a charitable initiative raising funds through auctions featuring celebrity encounters. Borish was also a member of the board of the Futures Industry Association.<ref name="autogenerated2">[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dycd/html/advisory_boards/youth_board_members.shtml "Youth Board Member – Peter Borish"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124012503/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dycd/html/advisory_boards/youth_board_members.shtml|date=January 24, 2012}}, ''DYCD – Youth Board Members''</ref> and he also served as special advisor to the board of directors of the Chicago Board of Trade. In addition, Borish was also a member Market Risk Advisory Committee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) during the pandemic.

Borish's career began at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1982, where he monitored foreign exchange futures and options until 1985.<ref name="mathforamerica1" /><ref name="umich1" /><ref>[http://www.futuresindustry.org/downloads/FIABoardofDirectorspressrelease3-09.pdf "Directors and Officers"], ''The Institute for Financial Markets'', March 11, 2009</ref>

==Philanthropy== Borish is a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation (along with Paul Tudor Jones and Glenn Dubin),<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|first=Kathleen |last=Teltsch |authorlink= |title=Nowadays, Robin Hood Gets the Rich to Give to the Poor |work=The New York Times|date= May 9, 1991|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/09/nyregion/nowadays-robin-hood-gets-the-rich-to-give-to-the-poor.html }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite magazine|title= The Emperors of Benevolence |magazine=New York Magazine|date=November 5, 2007 |url=http://nymag.com/guides/money/2007/39959/index1.html }}</ref> a charitable organization that attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City.<ref>[http://www.robinhood.org/about/board "Board of Directors – Peter Borish"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512200816/http://www.robinhood.org/about/board |date=May 12, 2013 }} ''Robin Hood''</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/timeofourlives0000brok |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/timeofourlives0000brok/page/159 159] |quote=Peter Borish. |title=The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation about America – Who We Are, Where We've Been, and Where We Need to Go Now, to Recapture the American Dream |author=Tom Brokaw |publisher= Random House LLC|date= 2012|access-date=April 22, 2014|isbn=9780812975123 }}</ref> He is also a founding board member of Math for America, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve mathematics education in United States public schools.<ref name="mathforamerica1"/>

He is also a mayoral appointee to the New York City Department of Youth & Community Development<ref name="autogenerated2"/>

==Personal life== He is married to Julie Borish.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sheldon Girsh (1927-2017), of Farmington Hills, Age 90, died June 4, 2017 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=June 6, 2017 |url= https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/freep/obituary.aspx?n=sheldon-girsh&pid=185716196&fhid=25535 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Elaine Girsh, Age 83, of Farmington Hills, died August 1, 2017|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date= August 4, 2017|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/freep/obituary.aspx?n=elaine-girsh&pid=186277442&fhid=25535 }}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://trendfollowing.libsyn.com/ep-160-peter-borish-interview-with-michael-covel-on-trend-following-radio "Peter Borish Interview with Michael Covel" (audio)], ''Trend Following'' with Michael Covel, September 24, 2013 *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjL1uY2rv8 "Trader. Paul Tudor Jones and Peter Borish" by Michael Glyn] 1987

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