Ruth oversees news and research content production for Leveraged Commentary & Data. She has spent 14 years at LCD, and has been in the loan market for 18 years. Prior to her current role Ruth spent seven years as LCD's chief of operations, supervising the unit's business strategies, and before that Ruth oversaw the launch of LCD's European research business, as well as construction of the S&P/LSTA European Leveraged Loan Index (she also supervised implentation of the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index). Ruth also has had stints at the LSTA - overseeing the LSTA/LPC Mark-to-Market Data service - Fremont General/Fremont Financial, Sanford Bernstein, and Aspen Performance Group.