Dinosaur Financial Group has appointed Robert Rahman as global head of credit within its newly-launched global corporate credit securities (GCCS) division.
GCCS aims to be an alternative liquidity provider for credit trading globally, offering an alternative to the bulge bracket financial institutions and non-capital committing agency firms.. This expands the firm’s existing fixed income footprint, which covers treasuries, agencies and mortgage-backed securities, municipals, emerging and frontier markets, and sovereign, supranational, and agency bonds (SSAs)
Based in New York, Rahman is responsible for Dinosaur’s credit division including sales, trading and research worldwide. This covers IG, HY, distressed and stressed bonds, special situations, leveraged loans, private credit and convertibles.
Rahman told The DESK: “GCCS will trade the entire credit universe and deliver a global product offering to institutional investors, targeting mutual funds, systematic, multi-strategy, distressed, loan only, credit hedge funds, family offices, ETFs, insurance companies, and private equity.”
The veteran global credit head has more than 25 years of industry experience and joins Dinosaur from Oppenheimer & Co., where he was a managing director and head of HY, distressed bonds and loans. He spent more than 15 years with the firm, prior to which he was part of the institutional sales team for HY, distressed bonds and loans at Morgan Stanley.
“My focus will be to provide institutional investors with an enhanced global liquidity platform in credit for the US, European and Asian markets. I look forward to building this business,” he said.
Elliot Grossman, managing director at Dinosaur, added that “with Robert’s leadership, the group seeks to help institutional investors by providing capital to help facilitate trades versus being another riskless agency credit shop.”
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