John B. Abbink

John Abbink has been involved with investments of all types on both sides of the Atlantic since 1980, as an equity analyst, portfolio manager, research director and corporate planner. He has established investment functions at several firms and introduced alternative investments where they had not previously been employed. He was deeply involved with shaping European Union securities legislation and has consulted widely to investment management firms, central banks and ministries of finance. He is also the author of "Optionality," an article which appeared in the August 2010 number of the Journal of Risk Finance and a number of articles on Seeking Alpha. He recently launched a weblog at http://johnabbink.blogspot.com.

Mr. Abbink holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University.