Francis A. Longstaff

Francis A. Longstaff is the Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a CFA and a CPA and has extensive Wall Street experience. His research interests focus primarily on fixed income markets, derivatives markets and valuation theory, computational finance, the impact of illiquidity of security valuation, credit risk, and the role of arbitrage in financial markets. Many of his valuation models have been used widely on Wall Street and throughout the global financial markets. He has served as a consultant for many Wall Street firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, commercial banks and other financial institutions, software developers and risk management firms, as well as in litigation support. He is a frequent speaker at practitioner seminars and conferences.