Leveraged Finance Research Analyst - Director

Nuveen’s Leveraged Finance team is seeking to hire an experienced industry coverage analyst across leveraged loans, high yield, and convertibles. The Leveraged Finance platform at Nuveen applies a collaborative and team-based approach to rigorous fundamental underwriting across the capital structure and risk spectrum, from higher quality non-investment grade to distressed situations. The team’s philosophy is to invest in liquid capital structures, both long and short, where relative value dislocations and event driven catalysts exist. Leveraged Finance manages $42 billion in AUM, and its investment strategies include hedge funds, separately managed accounts, comingled strategies and sub-advisory mandates for both retail and institutional clients, including Nuveen’s parent company, TIAA-CREF.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Assume primary coverage for sectors in the non-investment grade universe

• Build and maintain views and recommendations for long and short investments across the risk spectrum, from high quality BB to stressed situations

• Underwrite new issues and secondary ideas across loans, high yield and convertible bonds, both from a long and short perspective

• Actively monitor investments and taking predictive approach to managing risk exposures

• Perform ESG analysis and monitoring for portfolio companies; engage management teams on ESG related issues

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
7IC