David Askin

Throughout his extensive capital markets career, David has been a pioneer in creating innovative solutions for real world difficulties and in finding novel ways to resolve clients’ problems. He has done this as a fixed income strategist, researcher, portfolio manager, valuation and sales executive for a series of world-class organizations. Most recently, David was a co-founder of BVAL, Bloomberg’s leading evaluated pricing service for bonds and derivatives. Prior, he built successful fixed income portfolio management, sales, trading and analytics businesses that spanned the full spectrum of asset classes, strategies and functions at firms such as Merrill Lynch, Moody’s, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Daiwa. He also has been an adjunct professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Columbia Business School, as well as in the Financial Engineering Program at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. David has published chapters in several financial textbooks, as well as articles and white papers in the field.