Ira Kaplan, CFA has 15 years of institutional portfolio management experience.  Currently Director of Investments at Prosperity Life  He was previously with Swiss Re as head of US Admin Re® Portfolio Management and with MetLife’s Investment Department where he was responsible for managing assets within an ALM framework and driving the incremental income of the insurance company’s general account with AUM totaling of up to $75+ billion.  Mr. Kaplan has managed assets supporting both retail and reinsured liabilities within diversified, primarily fixed income, portfolios.  He was a member of Aurora National Life Assurance Company’s Board of Directors as well as the Swiss Re’s Admin Re® management team.  Mr. Kaplan is a CFA® Charterholder and earned a MBA in finance from the New York University Stern School of Business and a BS in Statistics & Biometry from Cornell University.