Coaching, Creating Your Own Window & Capital Allocation: Chris Hyzy's Playbook

Coaching, Creating Your Own Window & Capital Allocation: Chris Hyzy's Playbook

July 10, 2025 · 1h 5m · Episode 95

About this episode

Chris Hyzy discusses his career in investment management and shares insights on coaching and capital allocation.

Today's guest is Chris Hyzy. Chris is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer supporting Bank of America Private Bank and Merrill Lynch (within Bank of America Corporation). He leads investment strategy, asset allocation, equity and fixed income management, due diligence, and wealth planning guidance. Previously, he was CIO and Chief Investment Strategist for the Private Bank at Bank of America. Before that, he held senior investment roles at Citigroup Private Bank, including CIO for Latin America and chair of the Global Investment Themes Committee. He also led investment strategy teams at Merrill earlier in his career. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in business from Villanova University and an MBA in finance from NYU's Stern School of Business . He serves on Villanova's board of trustees and has held other advisory and nonprofit investment roles. In today's episode, we discussed: · Chris shared his early career story, which began at Merrill in 1991, learning about finance after being cut from the baseball team at Villanova & focusing instead on investing. · Discussion of Chris's experience coaching sports (football, basketball) and keeping his competitive edge outside of…

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