Kirk Allen

Kirk Allen is a managing director and head of trading at NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC, a value-oriented global firm which manages over $10 billion in assets.  Prior to joining NWQ in 2002, Kirk held the position of Senior Equity Trader with CapitalWorks Investment Partners where he was in charge of implementing trading strategy for the firm’s traditional Hedge product, as well as a Small-Cap and Mid-Cap Growth product.  Previous to this, he spent three years at Brandes Investment Partners as the Institutional Trading Manager where he was responsible for the firm’s global execution facility with additional oversight of the retail private client, wrap-fee and foreign exchange trading desks.  Before joining Brandes, he was an equity trader with Nicholas|Applegate Capital Management where he performed in both domestic and international equity capacities.  Kirk is a member of the NASDAQ Institutional Traders Advisory Council (ITAC) and a Nuveen representative to the ICI Equity Markets Advisory Committee.   Kirk graduated from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Finance. A native of San Diego, he has 26 years of financial industry experience with 23 years in buy-side trading.