Sarah Schroeder is a Researcher and Portfolio Manager for Coinbase Asset Management. Her focus is on the development of quantitative investment strategies applied to digital assets. Sarah was previously an executive director at AQR Capital, where she served on the portfolio management team for the firm’s systematic macro and trend strategies. In that role, she was primarily responsible for the firm’s alternative trend-following strategy and directional macro strategies. Before her tenure at AQR, Sarah worked on quantitative strategy development as part of Credit Suisse Asset Management’s Alternative Liquid Trading Strategies team. Her career began with quantitative modeling for a boutique economic consulting company that specializes in intellectual property valuation. Sarah graduated from the University of California at San Diego with high honors and received a B.S. in Management Science from the economics department as well as a B.A. in Public Law. Sarah also holds a Master’s in Financial Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles.