Ed Zablan is Director - Manager Research. Ed leads Watershed’s manager research effort in equity and fixed income strategies. He began his investment career in 1993 and joined Watershed in 2004.

Prior to joining Watershed, Ed was a Senior Research Analyst at RogersCasey in Chicago, responsible for the evaluation and monitoring of all U.S. Fixed Income and International Equity strategies. In addition, his responsibilities included reviewing investment fund objectives and policies, performing investment manager searches, and evaluating plan and manager performance for defined benefit, defined contribution, foundation and endowment clients. From 1993-1997, Ed was a performance analyst at SEI Investments where he was responsible for reviewing “Multiple Specialist Managers” performance in small-cap equity.

Ed received his BS in Accounting and Finance at Aurora University and his MBA in Finance from DePaul University.