Ram Kelkar - Managing Director, Capital Markets & Trading
 CFA

Professional designations

  • Chartered Financial Analyst

Current responsibility

Ram is a managing director in the Capital Markets and Hedging group affiliated with Milliman's Financial Risk Management practice in Chicago. This group advises corporations and financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies and pension funds, on financial and capital markets risk management. Key focus areas include asset-liability management (ALM), dynamic hedging of fixed, variable and equity-indexed annuities, pension plan risk and surplus management, and structured credit. In addition, the group is responsible for overseeing hedging programs where Milliman acts as an agent for clients.
 

Experience

Ram has more than 20 years of experience in the capital markets, having previously worked for Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and Allstate. He was most recently a director at Allstate Insurance in Northbrook, Ill., in the ALM group and at Allstate Investments, responsible for structured finance and derivatives strategy. Prior to Allstate, he was a managing director in the structured finance and derivatives areas at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, in New York and in London, providing structured finance, derivatives, and risk-management services to corporations and financial institutions across the globe.
 

Education

  • BTech (EE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
  • MS (Comp Sci), University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • MBA, Finance, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Ram  Kelkar 

Office: Chicago, Ill.

Phone: +1 312.726.0677