Gene Collins
Gene is a financial advisor and investor. As the current Executive-in-Residence
at The University of Toledo, College of Business Administration he provides
management and oversight for the Student Managed Investment Fund,
lectures on global investment strategies, and asset classes in the Department
of Finance. He is a member the Board of Directors for the UT Foundation and
serves on the UTF Investment Committee and the Advisory Board to UT
College of Business Administration and the Advisory Board for the Student
Managed Investment Fund.
Mr. Collins was a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers Asset Management
and Travelers Asset Management International Company, two of the SEC registered management companies
that made-up Citigroup Asset Management. He was a member of the Investment Policy Committee and Core
Fixed Income Committee of Citigroup Asset Management. As a member of the New York Association of
Business Economists, The Canada Society, and an Advisory Committee to the Bank of Canada, he is an active
participant in wide ranging economic issues.
In his 19 years of managing fixed income portfolios at Citigroup and its predecessor companies, Mr. Collins
managed over $24 Billion in assets and served as Chief Investment Officer of Primerica Life Insurance Company,
Primerica Life of Canada, and National Benefit Life Insurance Company. At Citigroup Asset Management Mr.
Collins managed over $2.9 Billion of high grade fixed income assets for eleven separate total-rate-of-return
accounts against five different benchmark indices.
Prior to joining the Company, Gene spent 14 years on Wall Street where he was vice president and manager of
Mortgage Backed Securities Trading at Salomon Brothers, Becker-Paribas, and Merrill Lynch. He was Partner-inCharge of Mortgage Backed Securities trading and sales at Becker-Paribas, and co-head of MBS trading at Merrill
Lynch. His contributions to the early development of Mortgage Backed Securities included risk management
and hedging techniques used by dealers to manage large risk positions in Mortgage Backed Securities. He was
the first Education Director of the GNMA Dealers Association, an early predecessor to the Public Securities
Association where he taught Wall Street analysts credit underwriting for mortgage banking companies.
Gene received a Bachelors Degree in Economics from The University of Toledo in 1968 and a Master’s Degree in
Economics from UT in 1971 following a two-year tour of duty with the U.S. Navy in Europe. He studied for a
Doctorate in Economics at the University of Rochester, and held numerous securities licenses from the National
Association of Securities Dealers including Series 24 for partners and officers. He was an adjunct professor of
Corporate Finance at The Rochester Institute of Technology and host of the TV and radio program Five Business
Days.
Gene is married to Dr. Nancy Heffner Collins, the former Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation Laboratories
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center in New York. Dr. Collins is currently a member of the
Medical Microbiology Department at the UT Medical College. He has two children; Tyler, wife Nan, and
grandson Kevin live in New York; Sarah, the founding choreographer/director of Dazzing Dance works for the
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation in New York City.