Daniel R. Amerman is a financial futurist, author,
speaker, and consultant with over 20 years of financial industry
experience. He is a Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA), and holds MBA and BSBA degrees in Finance from the University of
Missouri.
He has spent eight years developing a large, unique and intertwined body of work, that is devoted to
using the foundation principles of economics and finance to try to understand
the retirement of the Baby Boom from the perspective of the people who will be
paying for it.
Since 1990,
Mr. Amerman has provided specialized quantitative consulting services to
financial institutions, with a particular emphasis on structured finance. Previously, Mr. Amerman was vice president
of an institutional investment bank, with responsibilities including research,
synthetic securities, and capital market originations.
Two of Mr. Amerman’s previous books on finance were
published by major business publishers.
“COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS, Unlock The Secrets Of Mortgage
Derivatives”, was published by McGraw-Hill in 1995. Mr. Amerman is also the author of “MORTGAGE SECURITIES: The High-Yield Alternative To CDs, The
Low-Risk Alternative To Stocks”, which was published by Probus Publishing (now
a McGraw-Hill subsidiary) in 1993.
Advertised by the publisher as a professional "bestseller" for
four quarters, an Asian edition was sold as well.
Mr. Amerman has spoken at numerous
professional seminars and conferences nationwide, for a variety of sponsors
including New York University, the Institute for International Research, and
many others. After the publication of
his prior books, he acted as keynote speaker at a number of banking related
conferences over the next several years.