Francesco Rapisarda

Dr. Francesco Rapisarda is Head of Quantitative Portfolio Strategy at Method Investments & Advisory Ltd.
He heads the quantitative portfolio strategies division and provides invaluable knowledge in the complexities of financial modelling, gained through a wide-ranging career.
In 1998, Dr. Rapisarda joined Banca Intesa in Milan as Head of Financial Engineering and Front Office Support for Caboto, the group’s investment bank.
In 2000 he moved to Banca IMI Milan, to take up the post of Head of Front Office Quantitative Modelling for Equities and FX.
This role saw him structuring and pricing exotic single- and multi-asset derivatives, and developing proprietary models for implied volatility and correlation.
Dr. Rapisarda moved to UBS Investment Bank (London Equities Division) in 2006, where he was appointed Senior Front Office Quantitative Analyst.
Here, he developed models for options on the UBS proprietary commodities indices and for the replication of hedge-fund strategies.
Dr. Rapisarda holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics.