Andy Ball

Chief Investment Officer & Partner at Richbrook Advisors

Speaker

Mr. Ball co-founded RichBrook in 2020. He was previously a portfolio manager at West Side Advisors from July 2009 to Feb 2020. In this role, he co-managed roughly $600mm over that period with peak AUM reaching roughly $975mm. In addition, he co-managed West Side’s student loan investments and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Alcar LLC, a bank holding company. Prior to joining West Side, he was a mortgage derivative trader for the UBS CMO desk. Mr. Ball traded Trust and Structured IO/PO as well as Agency and Non-Agency mortgage derivative products. In 2009, he co-ran the mortgage derivative portfolio and oversaw the exit/liquidation of UBS’s mortgage derivative business. Mr. Ball was responsible for co-managing over $1 billion of Agency mortgage derivatives during this period. He built his career with a strong foundation in quantitative analysis first as a financial engineer for the mortgage portfolio at Freddie Mac and later building and implementing prepayment models at Wells Fargo Mortgage. He moved to UBS as the head prepayment strategist, writing prepayment commentary for the Mortgage Strategist and overseeing UBS’s prepayment modeling operations.

Mr. Ball received a B.A. in Economics from The College of William and Mary. Mr. Ball serves on the Boards of several non-profits and associations