Tim Cross manages digital and social media for S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Leveraged Commentary & Data, which reports in real time on the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets worldwide. Full Bio

Tim Cross manages digital and social media for S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Leveraged Commentary & Data, which reports in real time on the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets worldwide. As well as engaging subscribers, that means promoting the leveraged loan asset class to potential investors and to those wanting to learn more about the market. Before LCD he was Vice President at Reuters/LPC, where he edited the weekly magazine, Gold Sheets and oversaw LPC’s global editorial operations. Minimize

Beth Ann Bovino is the U.S. Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. Full Bio

Beth Ann Bovino is the U.S. Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. In this position, she develops S&P’s U.S. economic forecasts and authors the monthly U.S. Economic Forecast, the quarterly U.S. Risks to the Forecast, the weekly Financial Notes and the Weekly Economics Call. Beth Ann has created Industry Drivers reports for analyst research. She is quoted regularly in the press and has appeared on many major television programs. Further, she has written many articles for popular and professional publications.

Before joining Standard & Poor’s in February 2004, Beth Ann spent over ten years doing economic and market research with Sungard Institutional Brokerage, UBS Warburg, and the Federal Reserve.

The Wall Street Journal recognized Beth Ann as the most accurate forecaster of the U.S. economy in 2013.

Beth Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.  Minimize

Rachelle specializes in data-driven trend analysis and commentary on the leveraged finance markets, Full Bio

Rachelle specializes in data-driven trend analysis and commentary on the leveraged finance markets, focusing her efforts on showcasing developments and movements as tracked by LCD’s S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index – a widely used proxy for the $1.2 trillion leveraged loan market.

Joining LCD in 2014, Rachelle honed her leveraged finance background covering the often complex subset of distressed debt; placing particular emphasis on unearthing the detail behind the balance sheet maneuvers of companies on the brink, and market-moving trends as they relate to stress identifiers in broader market indices.

Before joining LCD, Rachelle wrote for Reuters and IFR on the U.S. high-yield corporate bond market in New York, and prior to that on sovereign and covered bonds as a markets reporter in London during the height of the financial crisis. Rachelle got her start as a research analyst at Thomson Financial, and also held post-graduate derivative trade confirmation roles at WestLB and UBS. Minimize

Martin Fridson is the Chief Investment Officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors. He is also publisher of the Forbes/Fridson Income Securities Investor newsletter. Fridson is “perhaps the most well-known figure in the high yield world,” according to Investment Dealers’ Digest. He received his B.A. cum laude in history from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Full Bio

Martin Fridson is the Chief Investment Officer of Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors. He is also publisher of the Forbes/Fridson Income Securities Investor newsletter. Fridson is “perhaps the most well-known figure in the high yield world,” according to Investment Dealers’ Digest. He received his B.A. cum laude in history from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

He has served as president of the Fixed Income Analysts Society, governor of the Association for Investment Management and Research (now CFA Institute), and director of the New York Society of Security Analysts. The Financial Management Association International named Fridson the Financial Executive of the Year in 2002. In 2000, he became the youngest person ever inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame. A study based on 16 core journals ranked Fridson among the ten most widely published authors in finance in the period 1990-2001. In 2013 Fridson served as Special Assistant to the Director for Deferred Compensation, Office of Management and the Budget, The City of New York. In 2000, The Green Magazine called Fridson’s Financial Statement Analysis “one of the most useful investment books ever.” The Boston Globe said his 2006 book, Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace, should be short-listed for best business book of the decade. Minimize