Speakers
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Andrew Susser Andrew Susser is an Executive Managing Director and Head of High Yield at MacKay Shields. He also follows the gaming, retail and food sectors and, from 2002 to 2004, was ranked by Institutional Investor as the No. 1 analyst in the high-yield sector. Before joining MacKay Shields in 2006, he was a portfolio manager with GoldenTree Asset Management. Previously, he was head of high yield bond research at Banc of America Securities covering the gaming, lodging and leisure sectors. He has also worked as a fixed-income analyst for Salomon Brothers; as a senior analyst at Moody’s Investors Service; and as a market analyst and institutional trading liaison for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. He began his career as a corporate finance and M&A attorney at Shearman & Sterling in New York. Andrew has a BA from Vassar College, an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has been working in the investment industry since 1986.
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Richard Class Richard is a member of the Fixed Income team. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2009 and has 15 years of investment experience. Previously, he ran Financial Product training for the Firm. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Richard was a fixed income trader of interest rate, currency and credit products and was a director of an independent training consultancy. Richard has a Mathematics degree from Oxford University.
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Philippe Lespinard Philippe joined Schroders in 2010 and was appointed as Co-Head of Fixed Income in February 2013. Immediately prior to joining Schroders, Philippe was a Partner and Head of Absolute Return Strategies at Brevan Howard Asset Management since 2008. Before this he was , Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Fisher Francis Trees & Watts (part of BNP Paribas Asset Management) with responsibility for investments, risk management and product strategy. From 2002 to 2006 Philippe was Chief Investment Officer at BNP Paribas Asset Management with responsibility for €150bn in assets under management covering fixed income and equities. He was named CIO of the year by Funds Europe in 2005. Responsible for sales and marketing to UK pension funds and their consultants. Philippe holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics from ENSIMAG (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, France), and has a post-graduate degree in Artificial Intelligence from University of Grenoble, France.
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Gary Kirk Gary spent the first 20 years of his career as a consistently successful proprietary credit trader before becoming a portfolio manager, during which time he traded the complete range of fixed-income securities and derivative products. Gary is one of the 10 partners of TwentyFour and a member of the portfolio management team where his primary responsibility is the co-management of the Firm’s credit based public bond Funds as well as a number of bespoke portfolios for institutional clients. Before founding TwentyFour, Gary was a partner and portfolio manager at Synapse Investment Management. Prior to this Gary was Head of European Credit trading at Wachovia Bank NA, where he led a successful proprietary trading group focused on European & Asian credit products. Between 1993 and 2000 Gary was Head of Credit Trading at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he was at the forefront of the development of the credit derivative market and a member of the professional market panel involved in the first standardised ISDA document. Gary’s investment banking career began in 1987 in the Corporate Finance & Syndicate group at Daiwa Securities where he created structured bonds for Asian investors as well as becoming one of the pioneers of the asset swap market. Prior to joining Wachovia, Gary was Head of Trading at CDC Ixis, running a group of 10 traders based in London, Paris & Frankfurt.
