Dr. Nils Nickel

• Execution director of asset risk transfer transactions for Lloyds and key FI clients. The transactions are often regulatory driven in the context of Basel III and Solvency II. • In the last 18 months successfully completed 3 Significant Risk Transfer transactions for Lloyds within a programmatic approach on in aggregate c. £4.2bn portfolios of SME/agriculture mortgage loans. • In 2016 successfully advised a UK life insurer on restructuring Lifetime Mortgages for Matching Adjustment efficiency.

Transaction director responsible for execution and complex analytics of structured finance transactions for Lloyds Banking Group. STG played a lead role in many of LBG's major corporate finance projects often dealing with special structuring issues (mostly with regard to accounting, regulatory and tax). Personal deal execution experience includes capital/funding solutions, pensions, non-core disposals and private equity.

Lecturer and support of research projects at the "Department for Information Systems and Operations Research" (WINFORS), Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Derigs

Analysis and conceptualisation of a decision support approach for implementing master fund strategies to a large set of specific bond fund mandates.

Development of optimisation tools for Index Tracking strategies in passive equity fund management.

Responsible for the development and implementation of a Quality Assurance Tool

Thesis title (translated): "Portfolio Optimisation in Fund Management of Investment Trust Companies"

Finance, Operations Research