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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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