Michael Vasseghi
Co-Head Global Insurance
- Role
- Co-head Global Insurance Solutions & Portfolio Trading at Morgan Stanley
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Vasseghi
Michael heads the US Insurance Solution practice and is responsible for cross-asset coverage for Fixed Income within the insurance and asset management industries as well as building out the newly created private debt/credit and NAV/ PBN financing businesses at Morgan Stanley. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2016, but is an industry veteran with 30+ years of experience in derivative and structured transactions with an emphasis on working with insurance companies and financial institutions on both the asset and liability side across all fixed income products. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Michael was a Managing Director and the U.S. Head of Macro Structuring for Fixed Income Currencies & Commodities (FICC) Division at UBS. Previously, Michael spent over 15 years at Merrill Lynch running a number of different groups. In his last role at Merrill Lynch, Michael was a Managing Director, responsible for 2 businesses, US Head of FICC structuring and U.S. Head of the U.S. Strategic Solutions Group. Previous to these roles, Michael has built and run other business including FIG Solutions, Insurance Solutions, Pensions, Repacks, and Property DerivativesHe has an extensive background and C-Suite relationships with Financial Institutions, in particular, the U.S Life and P&C insurance community.
Experience
Co-head Global Insurance Solutions & Portfolio Trading
Aug 2025 — Present · US
Education
Fordham University
BA, Political Science / Economcs
1986 — 1990
Skills
- Clos
- Rwa
- Private Equity
- Hedge Funds
- Regulatory Capital
- Investment Banking
- Counterparty Risk
- Financial Accounting
- Derivatives
- Funding
- Collateral Optimization
- Commodity
- Fixed Income
- Currency
- Fx Options
- Rates
- Structured Products
- Financial Structuring
- Volatility
- Capital Markets
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