Anton Theunissen
Faculty specializing in Asset Pricing, Fixed Income, Credit Risk, Market Risk, and Financial Mathematics, NYIF
PhD from the University of Cape town, 12+ years of experience in the financial services industry, 10+ years of academic experience, Anton has twelve years of financial services experience and more than 10 years of academic experience, teaching finance, economics and mathematics to graduate and undergraduate students. His research interests include the effects of securitization and rational default behavior on mortgage credit extension.
Anton`s professional experience includes positions at Swiss Re (Managing Director, Head of Market Risk), Chubb Financial Solutions (Executive Vice President, Head of Financial Products), American International Group (Vice President, Risk Finance) and Wells Fargo Bank (Manager, Management Sciences Group). He served as a consultant to Standard and Poor`s (Structured Finance Ratings), where he developed statistical risk models for CDOs of RMBS. From 2006 through 2013, Anton held the position of Adjunct Professor and Executive in Residence at the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He has lectured at IESE Business School (New York), British Columbia Institute of Technology, University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape.
