Managing Lease Portfolios: How to Increase Return and Control Risk

TOWNSEND WALKER is a partner of APERIMUS, a firm focused on identifying the sources of risk in leasing portfolios and devising structures to control those risks. He specializes in providing lessors with sophisticated modeling and structuring services, including comprehensive portfolio analysis, capital allocation, risk assessment, derivative structuring, and more. Most recently, Walker was a managing director at Banc of America Leasing & Capital Group, where he developed a portfolio model for leases and a lease valuation model. Walker received a PhD in economics from Stanford, an MA in economics from NYU, and a BS in foreign service from Georgetown University. He is also the author of A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market (published by Wiley) and Managing Risk with Derivatives.