Michael Griswold

Mr. Michael W.
Griswold, CFA, is a Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Ascension Investment Management LLC.
He sets the strategic direction for portfolios with AIM’s strategy team and is responsible for leading the asset allocation and risk management processes across all client portfolios with respect to their unique objectives, benchmarks, and constraints.
Through portfolio construction and ongoing analysis, he and his team ensure that the best thinking of AIM’s investment professionals is effectively and efficiently translated into client portfolios.
He has over 21 years of investment experience.
Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Mr. Griswold served as a Vice President in the Investment Strategy and Solutions Group at BNY Mellon Investment Management, where he developed asset allocation solutions for the firm’s largest institutional clients based on the group’s proprietary research frameworks.
He previously served as Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Scholtz & Company LLC, a registered investment advisor in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and his Master of Science degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of St. Louis.