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Tosh
Burns

With a career that spans 15 years and two different continents, Tosh Burns possesses a firm knowledge of the inner workings of structured finance and investment banking.

London, United Kingdom

With a career that spans 15 years and two different continents, Tosh Burns possesses a firm knowledge of the inner workings of structured finance and investment banking. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Tosh Burns attended McGill University in Montreal, earning his Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1987. Tosh Burns followed this by taking graduate courses in Business Administration at York University in Toronto. While there, Tosh Burns expanded his curriculum into law and received his Bachelor of Laws in 1992 in addition to his MBA. Two years later, he moved to Oxford, England to continue his law studies at the University of Oxford, Christ Church College. After obtaining his Master of Law in 1994, Tosh Burns returned to Canada and quickly found work as a corporate tax lawyer for the national tax firm Thorsteinssons in Toronto. He worked in this capacity for two years before transferring to the law firm of Clifford Chance in London. In 1998, Tosh Burns became an Associate with Morgan Stanley, specializing in derivative finance. For the next six years, he steadily climbed the corporate ladder, first working as the Assistant Director of Asset Securitisation for ABN AMRO Group; then as the Deputy Head of Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) for Societe Generale; and, finally as the Executive Director and Head of CDOs for CIBC. Most recently, Tosh Burns served as the Managing Director and European Head for Bank of America. While at Bank of America, he created the company’s total return swaps (TRS) book. In his off time, Tosh Burns enjoys golf, yoga, downhill skiing, and producing his own music. He currently resides in London with his wife and two children and holds dual British and Canadian citizenship.


Tosh Burns's Schools

Tosh Burns's Companies

  		•  Bank of America 2004 - 2009 - London, United Kingdom
    Managing Director
    European Head of Structured Credit Managing team of 15 professionals. Origination of new structured finance deals. Marketing deals to institutional investors globally Creation of structured credit platform in Europe for Bank of America. Promoted to Managing Director in 2007.

Tosh Burns's Publications

  • Tosh Burns on Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tosh Burns's Blog on Bigsighht
    February, 2011
    I enjoy reading authors who make me think or increase my knowledge in some way. For instance, I particularly enjoy the work of writers such as Deepak Chopra, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

    Known for novels such as Crime and Punishment, many consider Dostoevsky the father of existentialism for his writings exploring human psychology. Many feel that readers can best understand his writing by placing it in the context of the times in which he lived, the very politically and socially tumultuous 19th-century Russia.

    Moscow-born Dostoevsky grew up in an apartment on the grounds of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, which was located in one of the most socially and financially depressed sections of Moscow. Scholars note the influence of these early years on Dostoevsky’s writing, which manifested as an expansive compassion for the poor, downtrodden, and oppressed. Throughout his childhood and into his adult years, the writer suffered from epilepsy, another aspect of his personal life that shows in his writing.

    At the age of 16, following his mother’s death, Dostoevsky’s father sent him to the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. Upon graduation he received a military commission, although he remained in the army for only a few years. During his time at the institute and while he was in the army, Dostoevsky began writing; however, his work gained little recognition until 1846, when he wrote a short novel called Poor Folk, which appeared in A Petersburg Collection.

    Along with writing, Dostoevsky participated in liberal political societies, including the Russian literary discussion group called the Petrashevsky Circle. Tsar Nicholas I ordered the entire group arrested and executed, although ultimately the Petrashevsky Circle members served exile in Siberia for four years, another experience that made its way into Dostoevsky’s writing. It served as the inspiration for his 1862 novel, The House of the Dead.

    Throughout his writing life, Dostoevsky explored themes of the suffering of innocents, human psychology, evil, and the search for God. The intelligence and depth of his writing influenced many who came after him. Many 20th century writers credit Dostoevsky as a major influence, including Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.