Jordan Davis Mathews

Mr. Jordan D.
Mathews is a Co-Portfolio Manager & Director of Research at Ascension Capital Advisors, Inc. Mr. Mathews joined the firm in July 2016 and his roles include monitoring current and prospective investments for risk-managed proprietary investment models and creating trade files to uniformly apply model allocations across client accounts.
He currently serves on the investment committee of a local charitable foundation.
He has over 11 years of experience developing and implementing risk-managed strategies, including thematic long/short global macro investing and strategies dedicated to emerging markets.
Prior to joining Ascension Capital Advisors, Mr. Mathews honed his research and analytic skills at several other Texas-based registered investment advisory firms.
His commitment to risk management became deeply ingrained during the financial crisis of 2008, as he witnessed the destructive effects of the equity market collapse which reinforced the importance of risk management in protecting the value of the accounts he was managing.
Mr. Mathews was also employed as a Co-Portfolio Manager & Chief Compliance Officer by Sage Harbor Advisors, Inc. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 2004 with a BS in Mathematics, with emphasis on Statistics, Probability, and Data Analysis.