Prudential Fixed Income appoints Bjorn Flesaker as head of quantitative modelling

Prudential Fixed Income, the public fixed income asset management business of Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU), said on Monday that Bjorn Flesaker has been appointed as managing director and head of quantitative modelling.

In this role Flesaker is responsible for leading quantitative research and the team that develops models to assist traders and portfolio managers in identifying investment opportunities.

He will report to Arvind Rajan, managing director and head of quantitative research and risk management at Prudential Fixed Income.

Most recently Flesaker worked for Bloomberg, first as a senior member of its quantitative research group and then as a credit derivatives business manager. Earlier he was global head of credit analytical modelling at Morgan Stanley, served as head of quantitative risk at MBIA and was global head of derivatives research at Bear Stearns.

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