Morton Lane

Morton Lane is the Director of the Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MSFE) program at the University of Illinois, a new program commencing in the fall of 2010.

Morton Lane also acts as an independent consultant and president of Lane Financial, LLC, a broker-dealer engaged in activity at the intersection of the reinsurance and capital markets. Previously, Morton has been president of Sedgwick Lane Financial, senior managing director of the Capital Markets Division at Gerling Global Financial Products (GGFP), president of Discount Corp of New York Futures, senior managing director and head of commodities of Bear Stearns & Co, president of Lind-Waldock, investment officer for The World Bank, and lecturer at the London Graduate School of Business Studies.

Morton is a prominent speaker on insurance and securitisation and has written numerous articles on this subject. He has been awarded the Charles A. Hachemeister Prize for his article on “Pricing Risk Transfer Transactions” published in the Actuarial Studies in Non-life Insurance (ASTIN) Bulletin. He has co-authored two books, The Treasury Bond Basis and Eurodollar Futures, and edited a third Alternative Risk Strategies.

He has designed and taught courses at the University of Chicago Graduate School Of Business and at the University of New South Wales. Morton earned his B Soc Sc from Birmingham University, and his Ph D in mathematics, business administration and computer science from the University of Texas.

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