Bud Haslett is Director of Option Analytics for Miller Tabak + Co., LLC. He is responsible for developing option related products, services and research and is creating an option-based money management operation for the firm. Haslett previously founded a derivatives-based investment management firm managing more than $300 million in conservative option strategies and spent two decades on the options trading floor, where he managed portfolios of stocks and options.
Haslett is past president (2003-2004) of the 1700 member CFA Society of Philadelphia and is Chairman of the Board of Regents for the Financial Analysts Seminar (2005 to present). He is an active volunteer of the CFA Institute, having served in a variety of capacities including CFA exam grader (9 years) and as a member of the Council of Examiners (question writers for the CFA exam). Haslett has also taught coursework on options at New York University (2007), Johns Hopkins University (2006) and Rutgers University (1999 to 2001). He holds the Financial Risk Manager certification (1999) and has received a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania (2001), a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Investment Management from Drexel University (1982) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Shippensburg University (1980). Haslett is the founding Chairman of the Derivatives Committee for the 9000 member New York Society of Security Analysts (2006) and is a member of the Institutional Investor Advisory Committee for the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, a group of the largest buyside option users in North America. He has conducted option presentations and workshops at over 40 CFA Institute Societies around the world and is frequently quoted in financial sources such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Pensions and Investments, and Reuters. |