Jay Frank is the President of Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services, investment banking, and asset management company. Mr. Frank joined Cantor in 2015 to launch the private wealth distribution business now accounting for $13 billion in assets under management. He oversees distribution, has an active role in product construction and leads strategic initiatives including leading the creation and launch of the first ‘40 Act fund focused on private infrastructure as well as the integration of the firm’s mutual fund, ETF and SMA platforms with their private markets platform.
Throughout his career, Mr. Frank has been involved in the creation, structuring, launch, capital formation, management, and monetization of dozens of real asset and private credit strategies with over $35 billion in aggregate value. He has worked closely with wealth management, accounting, tax and legal firms on the education, due diligence and implementation of sophisticated real assets, and private credit solutions including Real Estate Investment Trusts, Interval Funds, Business Development Companies, 1031 and 721 Tax Deferred Exchanges and Qualified Opportunity Funds.
Mr. Frank earned a B.S. in Business Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds FINRA Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses and is an Investment Banking Representative. Mr. Frank currently serves on the board of the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (IPA).
Jay lives with his wife and two daughters in Santa Monica, California. Since 2012, Jay has been actively involved in Happy Trails for Kids, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of foster youth across Los Angeles.