Mani Sabapathi

(Co-founder)

Mani Sabapathi is a senior investment executive who has overseen investments and risk across a number of asset classes, including Mortgages and Structured Products, Global Bonds, Emerging Markets, US Credit Markets, Credit Derivatives, and Options strategies across multiple asset classes (FX, credit and equity).  He has strong subject matter expertise in fixed income, structured products, macro analysis, derivatives, volatility strategies, and quantitative methods (including use of AI and ML for investing).  He brings a strong risk mindset (thank you Society of Actuaries) and quantitative background to go along with strong technical training in engineering and computer science.  This background helps him be innovative and provocative in investment and risk analysis.  He has been sought out by regulators and policy makers (including NAIC, FASB, SEC, Federal reserve and the US Treasury) to provide expert views and help assess policy and regulatory implications.  He has also been a frequent speaker at numerous industry and client conferences.  

Mani spent over 25 years at Prudential, culminating his career as a senior portfolio manager for PGIM Fixed Income's Global Team. He was responsible for managing Global Bond portfolios, including allocation across sectors and countries, and developing volatility-based strategies in credit, fx and interest rate derivative products. He began his career at Prudential in the Actuarial Leadership Program, and completed his FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries).  He then moved on to Structured Products, where he covered a variety of Asset Backed Security sectors before heading RMBS (residential mortgage backed securities). In April 2008, Mani was named one of 3 finalists for “Investor of the Year” by Total Securitization magazine, a division of Institutional Investor. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Securitization Forum (ASF) from 2006 through 2011. Mani is a graduate of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, a BS in Systems Engineering (focusing in Robotics) and an MS in Computer Science (focusing in Artificial Intelligence) from the School of Engineering.