Nick Toporkov, CFA, Ph.D.

Biography

Nick Toporkov is a portfolio manager for the Systematic Edge Fixed Income team at Allspring Global Investments.

Before joining Allspring, Nick was a quantitative investment associate at Virginia Retirement System (VRS). Prior to VRS, he worked as a data scientist at Afiniti. He has held multiple research positions at CREOL Nanophotonics Lab and VCU Microelectronic Materials & Device Laboratory. Nick began his investment industry career in 2019.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University. Nick has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation.