Brad Olsen
Co-founder / Portfolio Manager
- Brad co-founded Recurrent in 2017. Prior to co-founding Recurrent, Brad was the lead MLP portfolio manager for BP Capital Fund Advisors (BPCFA). Prior to BPCFA, Brad led midstream research for TPH (now Perella Weinberg). Brad also worked at Millennium, a large hedge fund. He began his career at UBS Investment Bank.
BRAD OLSEN
Co-Founder, Portfolio Manager
Brad co-founded Recurrent with Mark Laskin in 2017. He serves as lead portfolio manager for Recurrent’s midstream infrastructure strategies, including the Recurrent MLP & Infrastructure Fund (RMLPX), and as co-portfolio manager for the firm’s natural resources strategy. Brad has spent roughly 20 years investing in and researching energy infrastructure and related businesses.
Prior to Recurrent, Brad was lead MLP portfolio manager at BP Capital Fund Advisors, where MLP assets under management more than doubled during his tenure, excluding market appreciation. From 2011 to 2015, he led Midstream Research at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. He was recognized by the Financial Times as the top all-around stock picker in the U.S. in 2013 and by Starmine as the top U.S. energy stock picker in 2014. The TPH midstream research team also received recognition from the Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor.
Earlier in his career, Brad was an investment analyst at Eagle Global Advisors, where he was part of a three-person team that grew midstream and MLP assets from approximately $300 million to more than $1 billion between 2008 and 2011. He also held investment roles at Millennium International and Strome Investment Management and began his career in the Global Energy Group at UBS Investment Bank in Houston.
Brad earned a BA in Philosophy, Political Science and Slavic Studies from Rice University. He lives in Houston with his wife and five children. His Russian was once nearly fluent and is now, by his own description, very rusty.
