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In 1997, Mr. Cohen co-founded Proprietary Capital LLC, a mortgage securities manager based in Denver, Colorado, where he has been managing partner since such time. At Proprietary, Mr. Cohen is responsible for portfolio management and prepayment modeling and forecasting of the firm’s mortgage-related portfolios. Prior to his work at Proprietary, Mr. Cohen was a senior vice president at Oppenheimer & Co. in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1995, where he was responsible for managing fixed income portfolios for the firm’s corporate clients. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Cohen was a mortgage-related securities salesman for Dean Witter Reynolds, advising and effecting transactions in mortgage securities with large institutional mortgage investors. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen has focused his efforts on uncovering non-traditional approaches to improving risk-adjusted performance for fixed income investors. Mr. Cohen is a frequent lecturer at investment conferences, speaking on topics such as non-traditional rebalancing disciplines, utilizing volatility to enhance portfolio returns, absolute return vs. relative return fixed income investing and interviewing hedge fund managers.
Mr. Cohen received a BS in Business Administration at the University of Florida. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Florida Investment Management Company, the management company for the University of Florida Foundation’s $1 billion Endowment Fund. | 