Samvit Prakash has 12 years of market experience at firms including HBK, Prosiris, Metacapital, BNP Paribas and The World Bank. He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics with a specialization in Mathematical Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park. Mr. Prakash joined at The World Bank in the Assets and Liability Management (ALM) unit at The World Bank Treasury in 2003. He was responsible for hedging the Bank’s loan portfolio of over $125BN, as well as structuring new hedge products for member countries on their existing loans.

Mr. Prakash moved to Wall Street in 2008 as an interest rate and MBS desk-strategist at BNP Paribas and then moved on to trading Agency MBS within BNPP. He left BNPP to join Metacapital’s Agency MBS portfolio management team. In addition to portfolio management, he was also responsible for prepayment analytics, idea generation and market risk. Mr. Prakash also worked at Prosiris and HBK where he managed their Agency MBS portfolios. Mr. Prakash has extensive portfolio management experience across Fixed Income including MBS, Structured Credit, Rates, Inflation and Volatility. Combined with his expertise in risk management as well as modeling and analytics, Mr. Prakash has a unique all-round experience in every aspect of portfolio management.