High-Yield Bonds: The Perfect Hybrid Asset Class? – Deutsche Asset Management – 12.14.17

Summary:

Now On Demand.

High-yield bond investing seems to have become more popular than ever. They can be ideal for investors seeking a combination of both growth and income.

Join Deutsche Asset Management for a discussion on:

• Why high-yield bonds over various time periods?
• Liquidity, portfolio construction and benchmark tracking
• Incorporating HYLB, now the lowest cost high-yield corporate bond ETF

Speakers:

David Stack is a Vice President within the ETF Capital Markets Group at Deutsche Asset Management. He is responsible for client relationships and ETF Education in the Institutional sales channel. David is also responsible for relationships with buy side execution trading desks.

Prior to joining Deutsche Asset Management, David worked for State Street Global Advisors within their Global ETF Capital Markets Group focusing on National Broker Dealers and Independent Broker Dealers sales channel. Most of his career was spent at UBS Wealth Management Americas where he was head of global equity trading focusing on client flow execution trading of Equities, Closed End Funds, and Exchange Traded Funds. David earned an MBA from St. John’s University. He holds FINRA series 3, 4, 7, 24, 55, and 66 licenses.

Joined the Company in 2010. Prior to his current role, Tanuj was responsible for trading and market making of European fixed income ETFs, structured funds, index swaps and options within the Fixed Income Derivatives Group in Corporate Banking & Securities BTech and MTech (Dual Degree) in Industrial Engineering & Management from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Eric Legunn is a strategist on the Thought Leadership team of Deutsche Bank’s US ETF business. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a Financial Analyst at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School with Dean’s Honors and a BA in economics with a minor in physics from Swarthmore College.

Michael “Mike” Cafiero serves as a Director of ETF Sales/Trading for Cantor Fitzgerald’s ETF Team providing high touch ETF trade execution services to institutions throughout North America. Mike’s focus is to help his clients choose an effective ETF trading strategy by making sure they are aware of all the nuances of the vast ETF landscape ultimately helping them achieve and understand a quality execution. In addition, Mike manages relationships with ETF issuers assisting in the market making and lead market maker businesses.

Mike joined Cantor Fitzgerald in September 2013 and previously was Vice President of ETF Sales/Trading at Knight Capital Americas; now Virtu. Mike started working in ETFs in Business Development for iShares ETFs at Barclays Global Investors which was acquired by Blackrock. Mike frequently participates in industry events as an advocate for ETFs and comes with over a decade of experience working in ETFs. Mike earned a BA in Economics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.