
Michael Julius possesses 25 years of residential mortgage trading and leadership experience. Most recently Michael was a Managing Director and Head of Agency Trading at Auriga USA, responsible for all CMO, Derivative, Collateral and ARM trading.
Prior to joining Auriga, Michael was a founding member of a team that purchased a controlling interest in CRT Capital Group in Stamford, CT and subsequently raised $225MM of private equity working capital. Michael was responsible for all fixed income trading focusing on: Non-Agency Fixed & Hybrid securities, Prime, Alt A, Pay-Options, Subprime, Agency CMOs and Derivatives. Michael identified, recruited and grew the sales and trading talent pool from 87 employees to 225 employees in 18 months.
From 1999 to 2008 Michael was an Executive Vice President and Head of Non-Agency Trading overseeing 25 traders and assistants at Countrywide Securities Corp. Michael managed all aspects of purchasing, hedging, marketing and selling of a $13 billion dollar position of fixed rate and adjustable rate non-agency securities comprised of: Prime, Alt A, Subprime, ABS, Pay Options and raw loans. Michael was responsible for coordinating the efforts of 45 sales people targeting banks, insurance companies, money mangers, hedge funds and mortgage originators.
Prior to Countrywide, Michael led various trading desks in NYC at Oppenheimer & Co., Mabon Securities and Yasuda Trust. Upon successful completion of the Ross Minority Program in Real Estate, Michael plans to pivot his career from residential mortgage trading into the commercial real estate arena.
Michael graduated from Duke University in 1989 and holds Series 24, 7 and 63 securities licenses.
Michael is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Children’s Fund for Glycogen Storage Disease Research.
Email: mjulius66@gmail.com