Investment Team
- Daniel D. O’Neill, President and Chief Investment Officer
- Loren Norton, High Yield Portfolio Manager
- Adam Gould, Vice President, Trading
- Paul Brigandi, Vice President, Trading
- Tony Ng, Assistant Vice President, Trading
- Michael Eschmann, Assistant Vice President, Trading
- Adam Kelly, Assistant Vice President, Trading
- Aram Babikian, Assistant Vice President, Trading
- Daniel D. O’Neill
President and Chief Investment Officer
As the President and Chief Investment Officer, Dan is responsible for all investment management and trading operations. He joined Direxion in 1999 and plays a leading role in the development and launch of new products and value added services for advisors and investors. He is a member of the Direxion Executive Management Committee.
Prior to joining Direxion Funds, he served as Portfolio Manager: Private Equity Investments at Hermitage Capital Management Limited in Moscow, Russia. His responsibilities included monitoring investments by two hedge funds in illiquid Russian equities.
Dan earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the editorial board for Virginia Law Review. He holds a BA in English and Economics from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he was a Jefferson Scholar.
- Loren Norton
High Yield Portfolio Manager
Loren manages the Direxion High Yield Funds. Prior to joining Direxion Funds, he obtained 7 years of fixed income trading experience at Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley and, most recently, Credit Suisse. For the past 4 years he has traded High Yield, crossover and investment grade single name credit derivatives and has experience in a breadth of industry sectors in the credit market. He was the index-flow trader for the DJ CDX products at Credit Suisse and was Credit Suisse's board member for the DJ CDX Index Consortium. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.