Multi-Asset Solutions

Paula Horn is a Managing Director and the President and Chief Investment Officer for Brookfield’s Public Securities Group. In this role, she serves as an integral member of its investment and risk committees and is involved in a variety of strategic initiatives, including product development and capital raising.

Ms. Horn is also a Portfolio Manager on the Public Securities Group’s Multi-Asset Solutions team, and oversees asset allocation and portfolio construction across private and public markets.

Prior to joining Brookfield in 2021, Ms. Horn was the Chief Investment Officer of Ziegler Capital Management where she oversaw equity trading, fixed income and equity teams, and served as the CIO and primary portfolio manager for all marketed fixed income products. Over her career, Ms. Horn has overseen and managed long-only strategies as well as leveraged hedge funds, structured products and mutual funds. She has marketed to and raised capital globally from private equity and hedge fund communities as well as institutional and retail channels.

Ms. Horn holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University.

Riley O’Neal is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager on the Public Securities Group’s Multi-Asset Solutions team. In this role he oversees asset allocation and portfolio construction across private and public markets.

He is also actively involved in the risk analysis of the firm’s equities and fixed income strategies, including independent monitoring of risk levels versus guidelines and assisting portfolio management teams in managing overall portfolio risk. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, he worked at multi-strategy hedge funds for four years focusing primarily on portfolio risk analytics and overall market risk.

Mr. O’Neal holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and received his Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting from Indiana University.

Gaal Surugeon is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager on the Public Securities Group’s Multi-Asset Solutions team. In this role, he oversees and contributes to the portfolio construction and asset allocation for the firm’s diversified real asset portfolios. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2019, Mr. Surugeon was an Executive Director at Oppenheimer Asset Management where he served as manager of the firm’s multi-asset portfolios and director of asset allocation and research. Prior to that, he was an associate economist at Decision Economics, Inc. Mr. Surugeon holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.