Laurie is a Senior Managing Director at Amherst Securities, responsible for research and business development. She joined the firm in December, 2008. From 1993-Nov 2008, Laurie was head of Global Fixed Income Research and Manager of U.S. Securitized Products Research at UBS and predecessor firms. The UBS Securitized Products Research group was widely recognized for its insightful analysis and weekly Mortgage Strategist publication. Prior to that, Laurie spent 10 years in senior fixed income research positions at Citicorp, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch. She was also a mortgage portfolio manager on the buy side and a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

As a mortgage analyst, Laurie has long dominated Institutional Investor’s MBS categories, placing first in multiple categories 44 times over the last eleven years—more than any other analyst in the history of the II polls.

Laurie holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Stanford University. She has published more than 180 articles in professional and academic journals, and co-authored and co-edited books 5 books.