THE INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIST - Key Persons


Andy O'Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Lead Researcher
Mr. O'Kelly joined TIS Group in October 2018. Prior to that he ran Sales and Trading for the Americas at Cabrera Capital in Chicago. Mr. O'Kelly has over 18 years of experience working in the equities, derivatives and FX markets in London, Chicago and NYC. Mr O'Kelly began his career during the dot com boom, working in fund management in the UK with Quilter PLC. He then moved into prop trading with Refco before taking over their strategy and analysis desk which ultimately took him to Chicago. Mr O'Kelly was then asked to establish the Futures and Options desk for ICAP (now NEX Group Plc) in the US which saw him move east to NYC. Mr O'Kelly's background on both the buy and sell side has allowed him to experience both ends of the spectrum globally, from ultra low latency short term trading all the way out to institutional buy and hold. Mr. O'Kelly currently holds the Series 7 General Securities Representative, Series 63 Uniform Securities State Law Registered Agent and Series 57 Securities Trader. He holds a B.Sc from the University of Manchester, England.

Larry Jeddeloh - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Founder
  • Institutional Strategist, and Founder of TIS Group
Larry Jeddeloh is the Editor of The Institutional Strategist, and Founder of TIS Group in Minneapolis. He is an experienced investment management professional with over 36 years in the business. Mr. Jeddeloh founded TIS Group in 1995. Previously, Mr. Jeddeloh held the position of Chief Investment Officer of Resource Capital Advisers, with responsibilities for $1 billion in assets. Prior to joining Resource, he was with the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zürich, where he was a Vize-Director and the Chief Investment Strategist in the Institutional Global Asset Management Group. In the 1980s, he was Director of Equity Research at the Leuthold Group, a well-known institutional research firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for seven years. He was also a partner of Leuthold and Anderson Investment Management Counseling and Weeden & Company, an institutional brokerage firm. Mr. Jeddeloh earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Masters of Business Administration degree from University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has taught courses in investments and corporate finance at the University of Minnesota, the University of Northwestern (MN, formerly Northwestern College), and Augsburg College. Mr. Jeddeloh is a member of Chatham House, home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His work has been noted and used in various publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, Money Magazine, Your Money, U.S. News & World Report, Barron's, and Global Finance.