Leighton A. Hunley
Leighton Hunley is a principal and financial consultant with the Milwaukee office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2002.
Experience
Leighton’s areas of expertise include credit risk consulting, mortgage insurance, loan defect insurance, credit insurance, and mortgage market analytics. He has performed work and taken the lead on projects for mortgage insurers, property and casualty insurers, reinsurers, and top mortgage lenders, including credit unions, law firms, specialty financial institutions, and government agencies. Leighton also has experience working on projects involving student and auto loan lending, reserve evaluations, rate analyses, residual value insurance, non-payment insurance, bankers professional liability, financial institution bonds, and other financial modeling. He has managed the development of business intelligence reporting through data visualizations for clients. Recently, Leighton developed a modeling framework that sequences catastrophe models with credit risk models to quantify the impacts of climate change to mortgage investors and key stakeholders.
Leighton has authored many essays and articles on topics related to mortgage credit risk and student lending.
Examples of Leighton’s publications include the following:
- Unpriced Cost of Flooding: An Emerging Risk for Homeowners and Lenders. Milliman Insight, January 2022.
- Student loans and regulation: A bumpy ride for borrowers. Milliman Insight, February 2019.
- The Student Loan Debt Crisis Revisited: For-profits Come to the Forefront. Milliman Insight, February 2015.
- Current Expected Credit Loss: Implementation and Implications. MBA Member White Paper Program, April 2014.
- Will CUs’ Mortgage Loss Advantage Keep Holding Out? National Mortgage News, February 2011.
- Mortgage Captives’ Next Steps. Mortgage Banking, May 2009.
- MBA, Focus in Financial Strategy, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- BBA, Finance, Investments and Banking, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- BBA, Risk Management and Insurance, University of Wisconsin–Madison