Structured Credit Associate

Structured Credit Associate 

Fixed Income Portfolio Management Team 

Full-Time 

Boston, MA 

The Opportunity 

The Structured Credit Associate will be responsible for the evaluation, structuring, diligence, and on-going monitoring of structured credit investments for MassMutual’s General Investment Account (GIA).  The associate will also help manage relationships with MassMutual’s public and private asset-backed managers and will work closely with internal Portfolio Managers and the Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management. This role will have direct responsibility for the secondary coverage of assigned sectors of the GIA. The structured credit portfolio consists of a portfolio of diverse assets, structures, and managers; the assets are often complex, bespoke, and under negotiated terms. The role will report to the Head of Asset-Backed Finance. 

The Team 

The Fixed Income Portfolio Management (FIPM) team has responsibility for asset allocation, fundamental credit underwriting and monitoring, ESG investment strategy, and macroeconomic research. A small and highly collaborative team, FIPM works with other teams in Investment Management to manage the product segment portfolios and the approximately $250 billion GIA. The team pairs fundamental investment analysis and asset allocation skills with quantitative and asset/liability management expertise. This high-profile group works across all of Investment Management as well as with our other internal stakeholders including product, actuarial, treasury, accounting, risk, legal, and compliance, among others. 

The Impact: 

The associate will support the continued growth of the structured credit portfolio and the GIA more broadly with the structuring, underwriting, monitoring, and closing of asset-backed transactions and Investment Management Agreements. This work will assist the investment management department’s goal of providing MassMutual policy holders’ financial security. 

• Act as a thought leader for designated areas of concentration. 

• Execute fundamental credit analysis of individual holdings within various structured asset classes and recommendations of action where necessary. Recommendations are used by Portfolio Managers, the Head of Asset Allocation, and the Head of FIPM to drive and influence investment decisions for the GIA, and to ensure investment recommendations are aligned to our investment philosophy/fit our long-term strategy (i.e. patient, long-only investment style that strives to manage risks and take advantage of opportunities). 

• Research, underwrite, analyze, and monitor multiple fixed income asset classes including bringing names and/or strategies through Investment Committee(s). 

• Conduct in-depth macro research into various investment-related topics to support the evaluation of potential investment opportunities as well as the surveillance of current GIA holdings. The insights generated from this research are intended to be additive to performance, relative to benchmark and pricing assumptions.  Deep, thorough,