Sage Lincoln
Senior Research Director for Global Manager Research, Wells Fargo Investment Institute
Sage Lincoln is a senior research director for Global Manager Research (GMR), a division of Wells Fargo Investment Institute. The GMR team conducts due diligence and provides research on the third-party money managers used throughout Wells Fargo's brokerage, private banking, family wealth, and retirement businesses. In her role, Ms. Lincoln serves as the asset class lead for real assets and focuses the majority of her research in that area. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Ms. Lincoln worked at Offit Hall Capital Management, focusing on absolute return hedge funds. She has been in financial services for more than 15 years and has held positions at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Bear Stearns. Ms. Lincoln earned both a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies/Economics from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a Master of Arts in French from Middlebury College, School of French. She has also earned a Bachelor of Arts in French from Mount Holyoke College. She is based in San Francisco and resides with her family in Orinda, California.
Ann Miletti
Head of Active Equity, Wells Fargo Asset Management
Ann Miletti is head of Active Equity at Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). In this capacity, she oversees all active equity teams at WFAM, including management of investment professionals, trading activity, and other business-related issues. Prior to her current role, she was co-lead of the PMV Equity team managing more than $4 billion in assets. Ann began her investment industry career in 1991 at Strong Capital Management, which Wells Fargo later acquired in 2005. Throughout her career, Ann has covered most industry sectors as an equity research analyst and portfolio manager. Ann is a frequent guest on a number of financial networks, including CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business News. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Anna Snider, CAIA®
Head of CIO Due Diligence, Bank of America
Anna Snider is a Managing Director and Head of Due Diligence within the Chief Investment Office (CIO) for Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM), a division of Bank of America Corporation. In this role, she leads the due diligence team and is responsible for manager research across all asset classes supporting Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. As a voting member of the GWIM Investment Strategy Committee (GWIM ISC), she defines and executes investment strategies and implementation, including Impact Investing focused strategy manager research. She also coleads the impact investing initiative for GWIM. Prior to this role, Anna was part of the alternative investments group where she advised clients on hedge fund and private assets portfolio construction and became head of research for externally managed alternative investment fund of funds. She was also a senior analyst in the risk management division at U.S. Trust. Anna offers many years of investment and risk analysis experience, having held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JP Morgan and UBS focusing on market, credit and operational risk management. She graduated from Connecticut College. She holds the Chartered Alternative Investment AnalystSM (CAIASM) designation. Anna serves as chair of the board for High Water Women, a foundation based in New York City. She was cited within Barron’s magazine as one of “The 20 Most Influential People in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Investing”. Anna is currently an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow.
Christine Collins, CFA®
Senior Vice President, Principal Platform Distribution, Wells Fargo Asset Management
Christine Collins is an investment strategies consultant at Wells Fargo Asset Management working with broker/dealers. She began her investment industry career in 1996. Previous to joining Wells Fargo in 2012, Ms. Collins was an investment manager research analyst with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for seven years. She has also held positions in product management and research at Nationwide Investment Management Group and as a portfolio manager associate with Mellon Bond Associates and the Dreyfus Corporation. Ms. Collins earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Fairfield University and a master’s degree in finance from Villanova University. Ms. Collins has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of both CFA Institute and CFA Society Philadelphia.
