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Matt Orton is the Chief Market Strategist at Raymond James Investment Management as well as a portfolio manager and head of model portfolio solutions. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing and delivering market commentary, strategy, and analysis. He is also responsible for managing global thematic equity portfolios and developing a suite of model portfolio solutions for clients. Orton regularly appears on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo! Finance, among other networks. He has been quoted in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Reuters, and other financial news publications.

Orton has 16 years of investment experience and joined Raymond James Investment Management from BNP Paribas in New York where he was a Vice President in the Global Equity & Commodity Derivatives group, focusing on hedge fund and asset manager structuring and sales. Prior to that, Orton worked for Goldman Sachs Asset Management within the Quantitative Investment Strategies team where he focused on volatility research.

He earned a Master’s of Business Administration with a concentration in Capital Markets and Asset Management from Cornell University and a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University. He is a CFA charterholder.