CLO Analysis – Enhance Your Perspective with Bloomberg’s Customizable Tools
Speakers
Len Brous
Senior Credit Market Specialist
Bloomberg
Len is a credit markets specialist, who works with Bloomberg's community of credit users on tools for analysis, investment, trading, and capital markets, and provides market input to Bloomberg's product development teams. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Len was a managing director in the Bank Loans investment group at GE Capital, and also led commercial activities of an affiliated CLO manager. Before that, Len held a series of positions in the institutional fixed income division at Morgan Stanley, including cash credit and derivatives product management, structuring, syndication, and distribution. He's a graduate of Yale University and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
gary effman
Securitized Products Market Specialist
Bloomberg
Gary Effman is a Structured Products and Credit Market Specialist at Bloomberg. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Gary spent 10 years at Bank One in Chicago managing a $1 billion ABS portfolio along with various other proprietary investment portfolios focused on CLOs, ABS and non-agency MBS. He also worked in the credit risk management group hedging the Bank’s financial services portfolio. He subsequently worked at two mortgage/structured products hedge funds in CT. Gary received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. He also holds the CFA designation.
TODD COOPER
CLO Product Manager
BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX
Todd Cooper is the CLO Product Manager at Bloomberg LP where he is responsible for creating a platform to perform collateral analysis, cash flow modeling, analytics and valuation of U.S. and European CLOs. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2014, Todd spent six years as an advisor to the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance on the rehabilitation and restructuring of the monoline insurer, Ambac. Previous to Ambac, he was at Wachovia Capital Markets LLC (now Wells Fargo Securities) where he led deal teams in the origination, structuring and distribution of structured credit products. Todd has also worked in a similar role at Swiss Re, Bear Stearns and Barclays Capital. He has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and an MA and BA from Emory University. Todd is also a CFA charterholder.