Richard P. Mattione

Biography

"Richard P. Mattione is a retired partner of Boston-based investment firm GMO LLC. Current activities include being a director of Clear Markets, a developer and operator of electronic trading systems for interest rate derivatives; and starting up a macrofinancial research firm, NichiLA LLC. At GMO he served as portfolio manager, primarily for Japanese and Latin American equities. In addition he conducted research on Japan and on Europe’s sovereign and banking problems, culminating in a series of white papers including “Japan: After the Quake, After the Floods,” “Et Tu, Berlusconi? The Daunting (But Not Always Insuperable) Arithmetic of Sovereign Debt,” and “You Can Bank on It: European Banks Need a Ton of Money.” Prior to his time at GMO, he spent a decade at JPMorgan, divided between the International Economics, M&A-Advisory, and Securities groups. Before that he was at the Brookings Institution, conducting research on both OPEC investments after the oil shocks and on the global (mostly Latin American) debt crisis of the 1980s. Mr. Mattione holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, along with a B.S. degree in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University in St Louis."

Research Interest

Global equity investments, Japanese macrofinancial issues, Latin American macrofinancial issues, Bank capital management and banking crises