Brian Taylor (financial services executive)

Brian Taylor
Born 1964
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Alma mater Millikin University BS
University of Chicago MBA
Occupation Founder & CEO
Employer Pine River Capital Management

Brian Taylor (born 1964) is an American financial executive. He is the Founder and CEO of Pine River Capital Management LP.[1] Taylor has previously held positions at EBF & Associates.[2]

Early Life and Education

Brian Taylor received a BS in Accounting summa cum laude from Millikin University in 1986.[3] He then completed his MBA with a concentration in Finance and a specialization in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 1988.[4]

Career

Taylor’s career began at EBF & Associates in 1988 where he was a trader before being named head of the convertible arbitrage group in 1994, and Partner in 1997.[2] During his time at EBF, Taylor worked with Aaron Yeary and others, who later joined him at Pine River.[5] In 2002, Taylor left the company to start his global relative value hedge fund, Pine River Capital Management with a $5.3 million initial investment.[6][7][8] The firm has grown to over $15 billion in assets under management and employs 450 people globally, with nine offices.[9][10][11] Taylor has helped to build a Pine River presence in mainland China that focuses on deep-dive research on China’s on-shore markets.[12] Under Taylor’s guidance, the firm was recognized by Institutional Investor as Relative Value Hedge Fund Manager of the Year in 2012 and 2013.[13] [14] He is currently CEO of Pine River and Chairman of Two Harbors Investment Corporation.[15] Taylor also serves on the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Board of Trustees.[16]

References

  1. "Executive Profile Brian Curtis Taylor". Bloomberg Businessweek. November 9, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Brian Taylor". Forbes. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
  3. "Brian Taylor". CNBC. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  4. "Brian Taylor Bio, Returns, Net Worth". Insider Monkey. June 30, 2014.
  5. "Brian Taylor, the long-time head of EBF & Associates' convertible arbitrage strategy, has abruptly left the firm". Institutional Investor's Alpha. February 14, 2002.
  6. Karen Hube (December 24, 2011). "Cleaning Up In Mortgages". Barron's (newspaper).
  7. "Pine River CEO Uses Davos as a Learning Experience". Bloomberg TV. January 24, 2014.
  8. Svea Herbst-Bayliss (March 5, 2010). "Pine River housing bets started in cabin". Reuters.
  9. Stephen Foley (June 12, 2014). "Pine River joins hedge fund closing to new money". Financial Times.
  10. Rob Copeland (June 13, 2014). "Pine River Capital Returns Outside Money in Mortgage Fund". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. Irwin Speizer (June 4, 2013). "Can Mortgage Mavens Pine River Find Success in Other Markets?". Institutional Investor's Alpha.
  12. Bei Hu (November 27, 2013). "Goldman Sachs to GLG Open Asia Hedge Funds as Big Is Chic". Bloomberg News.
  13. "Institutional Investor magazine's 10th Anniversary Hedge Fund Industry Awards". Institutional Investor (magazine). June 21, 2013.
  14. "Institutional Investor’s 2013 Hedge Fund Award Winners Announced". Institutional Investor (magazine). June 28, 2013.
  15. "Brian C. Taylor Chairman of the Board of Directors". Two Harbors Investment Corp. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  16. "ABOUT / BOARD OF TRUSTEES". Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 2014.
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