Title:
Vice President – Quantitative Strategies:
Company:
SECURITY BENEFIT
Sector:
Investment Management
Place:
Topeka, Kansas, United States
Availability:
Q & A ; Interviews
(12 connections)
Quantitative MBA/CFA with extensive experience managing and trading financial derivative portfolios, modeling complex structures, issuing corporate debt and equity, and performing asset/liability risk management.
SECURITY BENEFIT
Topeka, Kansas, United States
02/2003-02/2009: Vice President – Quantitative Strategies: at SECURITY BENEFIT in Topeka
Vice President – Quantitative Strategies:
Senior Derivatives Portfolio Manager with portfolio management and trading responsibility for corporate risk management and mutual fund equity overlay
Management of the corporate equity income hedge, improving downside income by 93% and allowing upside potential
Portfolio management of Alpha Opportunity mutual fund; outperformed the S&P500 by 5.8% per year (2003-2008, gross)
Development of several MATLAB stochastic simulation models:
Corporate income model
Yield curve model (three factor)
Integrated econometric and multiple asset class models
Multi-tranch CDO model
Institutional fixed rate liability pricing models
Cost of Capital models
Asset risks rich/cheapness models (equity, duration, convexity, credit, volatility)
Coordination of investment backing long term institutional fixed rate liabilities
Member of Risk Management, Investment, and Interest Rate Crediting committees
Sector:
Investment Management, Mutual Funds / Unit Trusts
Function:
- Risk, Risk Management / Officer - Executive
Company description:
"$30 billion asset manager and annuity issuer"
INTEGRITY LIFE, group Western & Southern
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
01/1998-03/2000: Director, Investment Risk Management at INTEGRITY LIFE in Louisville
Director, Investment Risk Management
Senior Derivatives Portfolio Manager with portfolio management and trading responsibility of swap, future, and options portfolios
Portfolio management of derivatives for investment portfolio duration and convexity management
Pricing of complex derivative structures
Advising and execution of corporate asset/liability management
Assisting in the development of new products
CBO and structured asset investment
Sector:
Insurance, Insurer
Function:
- Risk, Risk Management / Head of Department
Company description:
"$10 billion issuer of annuities, funding agreements, and equity indexed annuities (acquired by Western & Southern)"
LG&E ENERGY MARKETING, group E.ON
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
07/1997-11/1998: Director, Financial Engineering at LG&E ENERGY MARKETING in Louisville
Director, Financial Engineering
Head of Financial Engineering department with responsibility for developing and implementing analytical pricing models for fundamental valuation, mark to market valuation, risk “Greeks” characterization, and hedging
Development of stochastic models for daily power, hourly strike power, spread, & ratchet options
Development of a model to generate stochastic electric load distributions
Development of a method to estimate the value of the implied optionality of full requirements transactions
Implementation of Value-at-Risk
Sector:
Brokerage, Commodity broker
Function:
- Analytics, Quantitative analysis / Head of Department
Company description:
"One of the largest marketers of power, gas, and coal in the U.S. (acquired by E.ON)"
AEGON (PROVIDIAN/CAPITAL HOLDING)
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
02/1989-07/1997: Director, Derivative Securities at AEGON (PROVIDIAN/CAPITAL HOLDING) in Louisville
Director, Derivative Securities
Director, Derivative Securities (1991 – 1997)
Senior Derivatives Portfolio Manager with portfolio management and trading responsibility of swap, future, and options portfolios
Portfolio management of $10 billion interest rate swap, futures, and options portfolios
Portfolio management of derivatives portfolio backing $700 million S&P500 total rate of return liability
Portfolio management of derivatives and cash portfolio backing an equity linked annuity
Management oversight of $500 million short term cash portfolio
Development of models to price complex asset, liability, and derivative structures
Hedging interest rate risk of an actively managed bond portfolio
Advising and execution of corporate asset/liability management
Measuring and managing counterparty credit exposure
Project Manager of Corporate Finance (1989 – 1991)
Managed $600 million Medium Term Note programs, $50 million Auction Preferred Stock issue, and $100 million Adjustable Rate Preferred Stock issue
Development and maintenance of 5-year Capital Forecast model
Modeling and analysis of competitors
Sector:
Insurance, Insurer
Function:
- Fund Management, Portfolio Management / Senior
AMERICAN GENERAL CORPORATION
Houston, Texas, United States
11/1986-02/1989: Financial Analyst at AMERICAN GENERAL CORPORATION in Houston
Financial Analyst
Asset/Liability analysis
Investment income and asset forecasting (short & intermediate term)
Prepayment and call forecasting
Analysis of the effect of capitalization on subsidiary performance
Analysis and interpretation of performance of subsidiaries for senior corporate management
Forecast of subsidiaries’ earnings
Development of new analytical tools for measuring subsidiary performance
Sector:
Insurance, Insurer
Function:
- Fund Management, Other Fund Management / Junior
Texas Instruments
Houston, Texas, United States
06/1983-11/1986: Strategic Marketing Engineer at Texas Instruments in Houston
Strategic Marketing Engineer
Financial analysis of investment projects
Decision support on product development and withdrawal
Market modeling and analysis of component and end-equipment markets
Intermediate and long-range financial planning
Manufacturing cost analysis and capacity planning
Marketing responsibility for digital signal processor (DSP) product line to major telecommunications accounts
Technical presentations to engineers and managers of client companies
Sector:
Others, Corporation
Function:
- Marketing - Investor relations, Marketing / Junior
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