Vineer Bhansali

Vineer Bhansali, Ph.D. , managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO, oversees PIMCO's quantitative investment portfolios. Prior to joining PIMCO, he was a proprietary trader in the fixed-income trading group at Credit Suisse First Boston and in the fixed-income arbitrage group at Salomon Brothers in New York, and he served as head of the exotic and hybrid options trading desk at Citibank New York. The author of Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options and Fixed Income Finance: A...See more

Vineer Bhansali, Ph.D. , managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO, oversees PIMCO's quantitative investment portfolios. Prior to joining PIMCO, he was a proprietary trader in the fixed-income trading group at Credit Suisse First Boston and in the fixed-income arbitrage group at Salomon Brothers in New York, and he served as head of the exotic and hybrid options trading desk at Citibank New York. The author of Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options and Fixed Income Finance: A Quantitative Approach , he serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance . He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1992 and his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics and engineering and applied sciences from Caltech in 1987. Bhansali lives in Laguna Beach, CA. See less