Bobby Previti, the Bank of America managing director and trader who was once a welder and who lost a finger during that phase of his life, has moved on again.
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Previti, who didn’t respond to a request to comment for this article, is not going back to welding but has left Bank of America in London and is understood to be joining a hedge fund. Which hedge fund is not clear.
Previti spent four years at Bank of America after joining from Morgan Stanley. He was promoted to managing director in January 2024 and was latterly the bank’s London-based head of SSA (Sovereign, Supranational, and Agency) and covered bond trading.
His is not the only recent departure from BofA’s London macro trading team. Fabio Brocker, an inflation trader who joined from Nomura in 2021 has also left for BNP Paribas.
Previti’s career path is as admirable as it is exceptional. After working as a welder, he studied at both Oxford University and the London School of Economics. He achieved a Masters aged 25 and got his first job as a trader aged 31. “I crossed the creek to get water,” he wrote previously.