Val V. Petrov

Dr. Val V.
Petrov is a Managing Director & Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Wellington Management Co. LLP.
He joined the firm in 2000 and concentrates on development and implementation of relative value models across yield curves (Agency Debt, Treasuries, Swaps) and Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) products.
His duties include the valuation, quantitative modeling, and relative value analysis of MBS products and MBS subsectors.
Dr. Petrov is also responsible for development of the Wellington Management proprietary prepay model, analysis of underlying characteristics of mortgage pools, and integration of pool selection criteria into the firm’s relative value framework.
Additionally, he is a Member of the firm’s Mortgage-Backed Strategy Group.
Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Petrov worked at Ascent Capital Management LLP from 1999 up to 2000, Applied Insurance Research, Inc. from 1998 up to 1999 and the University of Texas at Austin from 1995 up to 1998.
Dr. Petrov received his PhD in nonlinear Dynamics/Physical Chemistry from West Virginia University in 1995 and his Masters in Physics and Applied mathematics, with honors from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990.
He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.