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    Global structured credit

    Global structured credit

    Complete your journey
    Our team has managed global structured credit strategies for well over a decade across ‘core’, ‘alternative’ and ‘esoteric’ asset classes. Insight is committed to working directly with your investment team to customize a structured credit portfolio that meets your specific needs.

    $15.4bn

    Global structured credit under management1

    17

    dedicated structured credit investment professionals2

    161

    fixed income investment professionals2

    20

    years of average experience across the fixed income team1

    Strategy building blocks
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    Core

    Core

    Plain ‘vanilla’ assets such as Agency MBS or credit card and auto loan ABS. Many institutions have exposure to these large liquid markets through Core and Core Plus fixed income allocations.

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    Alternative

    Alternative

    Includes sectors such as middle-market CLOs and commercial real estate CLOs, which are popular with some sophisticated investors, in addition to non-US securitized markets like European CLOs, which in our opinion are largely ignored.

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    Esoteric

    Esoteric

    Investors have the least exposure to esoterics which is a small, complex and hard to access part of the market. We also see untapped potential.

    Leverage Insight’s global capability, specialism and experience across each market segment to fine tune a strategy built to your specifications.

    Meet some of our team

    Insight’s global structured credit team is highly experienced at originating, sourcing, modeling, analyzing and investing across each of the core, alternative and esoteric markets.

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    Shaheer Guirguis, CFA

    Head of Secured Finance

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    Shaheer Guirguis, CFA

    Head of Secured Finance

    Shaheer joined the Fixed Income Group at Insight in September 2007 and is the head of the Structured Credit Team, which is responsible for investments in the global structured credit markets, in addition to global asset-based finance activity. Shaheer is lead portfolio manager for the Insight High Grade ABS Fund and the Secured Finance Fund, as well as a number of segregated accounts. In July 2016, Shaheer relocated to New York to oversee the growth in capability within the US structured credit and asset-based finance markets. He began his career at Gulf International Bank (formerly Saudi International Bank) in 2000, where he held various positions, initially as a market risk analyst, then as an investment analyst before his appointment as a fixed income portfolio manager in 2007. Shaheer holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Surrey and an MSc in Finance from the University of Durham, as well as being a CFA charterholder®.

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    Jason Cameron

    Head of US Secured Finance

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    Jason Cameron

    Head of US Secured Finance

    Jason joined Insight in January 2015, following BNY Mellon’s acquisition of Cutwater Asset Management (Cutwater). Jason initially joined Cutwater in 1999 and has extensive financial engineering and portfolio management experience. He heads up Insight’s US Secured Finance Team and is also responsible for the US CLO and global trade finance investment activity for the firm and managing structured finance focused funds. Previously, he was a Quantitative Analyst in Capital Markets Assurance Corp's (CapMAC’s) Financial Engineering Group and its successor, the Alternative Structured Finance Investments Group of MBIA Insurance Corp where he was involved in structuring and risk taking in CLOs and esoteric securitization transactions. Prior to joining CapMAC, Jason was an Assistant Vice President and quant in the Strategic Business Planning and Analysis Team at Citibank’s World Wide Securities Services Division. He started his career as a Financial Risk Technologist at General Electric’s Corporate Research and Development Center. Jason holds a BA (Hon) degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia. He also holds Series 7 and 63 licenses from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

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    Tristan Teoh

    Head of European Secured Finance

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    Tristan Teoh

    Head of European Secured Finance

    Tristan is a senior portfolio manager within the Fixed Income Group. Tristan joined the Fixed Income Group at Insight in May 2012 as an analyst responsible for analysing structured finance investments. He became a portfolio manager in March 2015. Prior to joining Insight, Tristan worked at Morgan Stanley in the Securitised Products Group where he was responsible for pricing and structuring of both commercial and residential mortgage loans in Europe. Tristan began his career in 2001 at Pitcher Partners working on audit and accounting engagements. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and Finance and a Bachelor of Business Systems from Monash University, Australia. Tristan also holds the CA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia.

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