Dennis Emanuel, Managing Director, has more than 30 years of investment industry experience. Mr. Emanuel began his career in 1991 as a Senior Bond Fund Analyst at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & Smith. He later joined Citigroup where he was Managing Director and Head of the ETF & Closed-End Fund Research team. In this role his team was a two-time winner for Best Closed-End Fund Research announced at Capital Link’s annual Closed-End Fund and Global ETF Research Conference. Mr. Emanuel was also a pioneer in the ETF Research space, publishing some of the industry’s first white papers on the product.

In 2014 he joined SS&C/ALPS as the Director of ETF and Closed-End Fund Strategy. In addition to heading up the firm’s Closed-End Fund business, where he oversaw the largest closed-end fund rights offering on record, for the Reaves Utility Income Fund, which raised $428 million in August 2017), Mr. Emanuel was part of the product development and pricing team for ETFs, as well as the Head of Oversight on all active strategies within the SS&C/ALPS Variable Insurance and Financial Trusts.

At Chatsworth Mr. Emanuel is focused on capital raising and advisory services for the asset management industry. Mr. Emanuel received an MBA in Finance and Management Information Systems from Syracuse University and holds a BBA in Marketing from Pace University.