Benjamin Punch

Benjamin Punch is a Senior Quantitative Researcher / Developer at Venerable since April 2021. Prior to that, Benjamin worked as a Senior Quantitative Analyst at Lincoln Financial Group from December 2015 to April 2021. Benjamin has experience in managing option cost attribution, hedging notional amounts across FIA/IVA portfolios, and supporting setting of FIA/IVA rates. Benjamin also optimized code for running multiple regression and conducted historical backtests during their time as a Trading Strategies Intern at Lincoln. Benjamin holds a Master's degree in Quantitative and Computational Finance from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from Middle Tennessee State University.