Chris Fenske

Chris Fenske is currently Head of Capital Markets Research for the Global Markets Group at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he focuses on combining the firm's and other alternative datasets with financial market data to provide insight into the liquidity and performance of fixed income investments.

Chris's research has been cited in Barron's and he frequently presents at investment forums on the topic of assimilating alternative data into the securitized, municipal, and corporate bond investment processes.

Prior to joining S&P Global, he was a senior vice president at Halcyon Asset Management, where he was a senior trader and research analyst managing a portfolio focused on investments in non-agency RMBS, collateralized loan obligations, auto, synthetic indices, and other asset-backed securities for a $900 million distressed securitized products fund. He began his career at Credit Suisse as a fixed income research analyst on the #1 ranked mortgage-related ABS research team by Institutional Investor Magazine and later became a trader of distressed MBS and credit default swaps on ABS.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Binghamton University.