Nazar Suschko Ph.D., FRM

Nazar is a portfolio manager on Nuveen's Multi-Asset portfolio management team. He has oversight for various risk-focused strategies and supports Nuveen’s option overwrite mandates. Nazar is responsible for portfolio management, portfolio construction, strategy design, creating new investment models and providing theoretical expertise for prospects and clients.

Prior to joining the firm in 2016, Nazar was a portfolio manager at AEGON USA Investment Management, where he managed risk-based asset allocation strategies. Before that, he held several other roles at AEGON in both the U.S. and the Netherlands, including senior investment risk manager and the head of European portfolio risk management. He began his career in 2004 at ING Investment Management as a senior quantitative market and credit risk manager for the firm’s European asset management activities.

Nazar graduated with both a master’s and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He holds the FRM certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.