David Abeln

David J. Abeln is an Oklahoma City-based investment professional whose public LinkedIn profile lists his current affiliation as Industrial Alliance Portfolio Management, with the firm location shown as Scottsdale, Arizona. Industrial Alliance Portfolio Management is described publicly as a subsidiary of iA Financial Group, one of Canada’s largest insurance and wealth management groups, and it operates in the United States.

Before Industrial Alliance Portfolio Management, Abeln was publicly listed by ContactOut as Vice President/Director, U.S. Agency and Structured Credit at American Fidelity Assurance Company in Oklahoma City. A 2011 Federal Housing Finance Agency public-comment index also lists “David Abeln” with American Fidelity Assurance Company, indicating his involvement in insurance-investment or housing-finance policy matters at that time.

His LinkedIn profile lists education at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. It also lists volunteer and civic affiliations including Knights of Columbus, former Chairman of the Board of Directors at Payne Education Center, Leadership Oklahoma City Class 30, and The University of Oklahoma Executive Education Partnership Program.

• I found no public, verifiable angel-investing thesis, startup portfolio page, check-size statement, or seed-stage mandate attributable to David J. Abeln.
• The publicly verifiable investment background is in institutional investment management, especially insurance-related investment work and U.S. agency / structured credit.
• His current listed firm, Industrial Alliance Portfolio Management, focuses on portfolio risk, performance attribution, and multi-asset investment-management capabilities, based on public firm news.
• For founders, the most plausible fit would be highly relevant opportunities tied to insurance, asset management, risk analytics, fixed income, structured credit, or financial infrastructure, but no public source confirms that he actively makes angel or seed investments.