Systematic Investing in Credit

ARIK BEN DOR, PHD, is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS and Head of Quantitative Equity Research. He joined QPS in 2004 at Lehman Brothers. Arik oversees research in equities, rates, credit, and hedge funds. Arik co-authored two books and published over a dozen articles in leading industry journals. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Fixed Income. Arik holds a PhD in finance from Kellogg School of Management.

ALBERT DESCLÉE is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS based in London and is responsible for its European activities. He advises investors on fixed income and multi-asset portfolio construction. Albert joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers. Prior to this, he worked at Salomon Brothers in London. Albert graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and obtained an MBA from INSEAD.

LEV DYNKIN, PHD, is the Founder and Head of Quantitative Portfolio Strategy (QPS) Group at Barclays Research. Lev and QPS joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers where they had been a part of Global Research since 1987 and helped launch the Lehman fixed income indices. For over a decade, QPS has been top ranked in its category in the Institutional Investor Research survey. Lev and QPS co-authored three books: A Decade of Duration Times Spread (DTS), Barclays, 2015; Quantitative Credit Portfolio Management, Wiley, 2011; and Quantitative Management of Bond Portfolios, Princeton University Press, 2007.

JAY HYMAN, PHD, is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS. He advises clients on portfolio management relative to traditional benchmarks or liabilities, risk budgeting, style analysis, cost of constraints, sufficient diversification, and index replication. Jay has co-authored three books with QPS colleagues. He joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers where he worked in quantitative research since 1991. Jay holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.

SIMON POLBENNIKOV, PHD, is a Managing Director in Barclays QPS. He is responsible for empirical research of all quantitative aspects of the investment process including systematic strategies and investment styles in fixed income, benchmark customization, tactical allocation, and hedging. Simon joined Barclays in 2008 from Lehman Brothers. Simon holds a PhD in empirical finance from Tilburg University, Netherlands.