Tomer Yahalom
Senior Director - Insurance Research and Strategy
Moody's Analytics
Tomer is a Senior Director in the Insurance Research and Strategy Group. He leads research efforts for risk management solutions for insurance companies, pensions funds and asset managers with a focus on the Americas.
Some projects Tomer’s team has been focused on include Risk Integrated Credit Solution (RICS) for a range of applications including ALM, Risk, and Portfolio Management, macro variables simulations, and risk integration across Market and Credit risks/platforms.
Prior to focusing on the insurance sector Tomer has worked on portfolio- and balance sheet-related research. He has initiated and led several research initiatives such as the modeling of complex instruments (e.g., structured products and leases) in a portfolio setting, and PPNR modeling and validation for stress testing. He also headed Moody’s Research Services team, which focuses on quantitative client service engagements.
Tomer holds a PhD in Operations, Information & Technology from Stanford University, an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University, and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has published in the areas of queuing theory, mechanism design and risk management.