Mary Ann Bartels
Chief Investment Strategist
Sanctuary Wealth
Mary Ann Bartels is a recognized and award-winning strategist that spent 35 years on Wall Street analyzing and communicating trends in the economy, equities, bonds, commodities, and exchange-traded funds. Ms. Bartels held many roles at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. She also held portfolio manager roles at Zweig-Avatar in New York and Batterymarch in Boston.
For many years, Mary Ann contributed to the thought leadership for investment guidance and portfolio solutions for Merrill Lynch advisors and clients. Mary Ann’s name became synonymous with high-quality portfolio strategy and research, earning her the respect of clients and her peers in the industry.
Mary Ann has been an Institutional Investor All-American Research ranked analyst for six consecutive years for her work in Technical Analysis. She is also highly regarded for developing proprietary models for equity pairs trading, her stock, sector, and industry selections, and her extensive work on Hedge Funds.
Ms. Bartels has pivoted her career to understanding and educating the cutting edge new technology in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and the Metaverse.
Mary Ann has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business and has been often quoted in various publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Barron’s.
Ms. Bartels earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Business and Economics from Fordham University. She is a graduate of the LondonReal DeFi Academy Accelerator program. She serves on several advisory boards, including her Alma Mater, Fordham University, and We4C. Mary Ann was invited into Marquis Who’s Who in 1998 as a Global Portfolio Manager and in 2019 as an Investment Strategist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. She is also a member of the LondonReal DeFi Academy Investment Club.
For many years, Mary Ann contributed to the thought leadership for investment guidance and portfolio solutions for Merrill Lynch advisors and clients. Mary Ann’s name became synonymous with high-quality portfolio strategy and research, earning her the respect of clients and her peers in the industry.
Mary Ann has been an Institutional Investor All-American Research ranked analyst for six consecutive years for her work in Technical Analysis. She is also highly regarded for developing proprietary models for equity pairs trading, her stock, sector, and industry selections, and her extensive work on Hedge Funds.
Ms. Bartels has pivoted her career to understanding and educating the cutting edge new technology in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Cryptocurrency, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and the Metaverse.
Mary Ann has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business and has been often quoted in various publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Barron’s.
Ms. Bartels earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Business and Economics from Fordham University. She is a graduate of the LondonReal DeFi Academy Accelerator program. She serves on several advisory boards, including her Alma Mater, Fordham University, and We4C. Mary Ann was invited into Marquis Who’s Who in 1998 as a Global Portfolio Manager and in 2019 as an Investment Strategist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. She is also a member of the LondonReal DeFi Academy Investment Club.
