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Instructor

Andreas Christopoulos

Practical Experience:


Andrea D. Christopoulos is a New York Institute of Finance faculty member specializing in training and consulting solutions for structured finance, risk management, valuation and investment strategy.

His experience covers securitized instruments and quantitative financial applications from research, trading, risk management and software development perspectives with a consistent and clear eyed focus on valuation.

Prior to his current consulting work, Christopoulos held senior roles in CMBS risk management, research and trading at JPMorganChase and Nomura Holding America. Most recently he oversaw all risks of a $3B CRE and CMBS portfolio and performed extensive valuations of CMBS, CRE CDOs and underlying and commercial real estate collateral. He provided profitable strategic insights into the health of the commercial real estate sector, advised to senior management on the appropriate valuations of bonds and collateral and facilitated the successful use of derivatives in the opening stages of the current credit crisis. Andreas got his start in structured finance at Lehman Brothers. He is also the co-founder of WOTN a CMBS risk management software company.

Areas of Expertise:


CMBS
Structured Products
Risk Management
Valuation
Credit Risk

Education:


AB in Philosophy and Literature from Vassar College
MBA in Finance and Strategy from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management

Licenses:


Licensed with the NASD
Series 7
Series 63

Publication(s):


AREUEA: Real Estate Economics CMBS and the Market Efficiency with respect to Costly Information (w/R. Jarrow, Y. Yildirim), Volume 36, Issue 3, 2008.

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