LEIF ANDERSEN

Industry Adviser to the Program

LEIF ANDERSEN
Instructor Since: 2004
Global Co-Head of the Quantitative Strategies Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Leif B. G. Andersen is the Global Head of The Quantitative Strategies Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He holds MSc’s in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Finance from University of Aarhus Business School. He was the co-recipient of Risk Magazine’s 2001 and 2018 Quant of the Year Awards, and has worked for more than 25 years as a quantitative researcher in the global markets trading area. He has authored influential research papers and books in all areas of quantitative finance, including the three-volume monograph “Interest Rate Modelling.” (co-authored with Vladimir Piterbarg). He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Finance

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Funding Value Adjustments (2017)

Leif Andersen, Darrell Duffie and Yang Song

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Credit Exposure in the Presence of Initial Margin (2017)

Leif Andersen, Michael Pykhtin and Alexander Sokol

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Rethinking the Margin Period of Risk (2017)

Leif Andersen, Michael Pykhtin and Alexander Sokol

High-Performance American Option Pricing. (July 2016)

Leif Andersen, Mark Lake and Dimitri Offengenden

The FVA Puzzle: Accounting, Risk Management and Collateral Trading. (November 2014)

Leif Andersen, Claudio Albanese and Stefano Iabichino

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A New Framework for Dynamic Credit Portfolio Loss Modelling. (March 2008)

Leif Andersen, Jakob Sidenius and Vladimir Piterbarg

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Efficient Simulation of the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model (January 23, 2007)

Leif Andersen

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Moment Explosions in Stochastic Volatility Models. (January 2007)

Leif Andersen and Vladimir Piterbarg

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CDO Pricing with Factor Models: Survey and Comments. (Summer 2005)

Leif Andersen and Jakob Sidenius

Extensions to the Gaussian Copula: Random Recovery and Random Factor Loadings (Winter 2004/5)

Leif Andersen and Jakob Sidenius

Primal-Dual Simulation Algorithm for Pricing Multidimensional American Options. (September 2004)

Leif Andersen and Mark Broadie

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A Simple Approach to the Pricing of Bermudan Swaptions in the Multi-Factor Libor Market Model. (March 5, 1999)

Leif Andersen

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Calibration and Implementation of Convertible Bond Models. (March 2003

Leif Andersen and Dan Buffum

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Jump-Diffusion Processes: Volatility Smile Fitting and Numerical Methods for Option Pricing. (October 2000)

Leif Andersen and Jesper Andreasen

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Factor Dependence of Bermudan Swaption Prices: Fact or Ficton? (May 2000)

Leif Andersen and Jesper Andreasen

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Volatility Skews and Extensions of the Libor Market Model. (June 4, 1998)

Leif Andersen and Jesper Andreasen

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Interest Rate Modeling. Volume 3: Products and Risk Managemnt (August 17, 2010)

Leif Andersen and Vladimir V. Piterbarg

nterest Rate Modeling. Volume 2: Term Structure Models (August 17, 2010)

Leif Andersen and Vladimir V. Piterbarg

nterest Rate Modeling. Volume 1: Foundations and Vanilla Models (February 6, 2010)

Leif Andersen and Vladimir V. Piterbarg

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