Author: Glen McDermott

ARVIND RAJAN, PHD, is a Managing Director at Citigroup, where he engages in proprietary trading of credit, structured credit, and emerging markets. He was previously co-head of U.S. Fixed Income Strategy (2004-2005) and global head of Structured Credit Research and Strategy (2003-2005). Rajan was twice ranked first and once second in the All-America Fixed Income Research poll by Institutional Investor magazine. He has more than two decades of experience in modeling and quantitative analysis. GLEN MCDERMOTT, JD, is a Director in the Structured Credit Sales Group at Citigroup Global Markets. Previously, Mc Dermott was a highly ranked research analyst and global head of CDO Research and Strategy at Citigroup for five years (2000-2005). Prior to joining Citigroup, Mc Dermott worked for six years (1994-2000) at Standard & Poor”s Ratings Services where he analyzed many structured finance asset classes. Mc Dermott”s work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, and he is also a contributor to the Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities, also published by Wiley. RATUL ROY is Head of CDO Strategy for Citigroup Global Markets. Before taking on his current role in 2005, Roy was head of European CDO Strategy–a position he occupied in 2003 after spending the prior seven years in structuring or analyzing CDOs and other structured credit products. This included positions in UBS Capital Markets (1995-1997), Chase Manhattan Bank (1997-1999), Standard & Poor”s (1999-2000), and finally, as a cash CDO structurer in Citigroup”s London office (2000-2003). Roy holds a Ph D in chemical engineering from Cambridge University, England.