Lance Badorf joined HJ Sims as Vice President of Fixed Income Trading.
Badorf is a 15 year industry veteran who specializes in trading taxable and bank qualified municipal bonds. He was most recently Director of Trading at Oppenheimer & Co. in Westport, Conn., where he traded taxable munis for institutional middle market and retail accounts. Prior to that, he worked at Southwest Securities and TD Securities.
"Specializing in taxable trading and bank qualified securities, Lance has experience with retail and institutional sales, covering middle market banks, insurance companies, investment advisors and municipalities," Arthur J. Wunder, HJ Sims Executive Vice President, said in a press release Monday.
Badorf has a BSBA in Finance from Drexel University and holds his Series 7 and 66 licenses. He will be working out of the firm's headquarters in Fairfield, Conn.
"We welcome Lance to our team for the long haul, and appreciate his significant impact and results for our income advisors and clients," said HJ Sims Managing Principal Dan Mullane.
"Trading bonds requires a dynamic focus, which means you have to be on top of everything, all of the time, in order to be successful," Badorf said. "This keeps my job interesting and keeps me, as a trader, always searching for the next great idea. This is why I love coming into work every morning. I look forward to working with the fixed income experts at HJ Sims."
