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Dr. Prendergast is currently a testifying expert at SLCG and has worked extensively with fixed-income investments including subprime and other private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS), agency MBS, collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), auction rate securities (ARS) and municipal bonds.
Dr. Prendergast received his Ph.D.
in Finance from the University of Michigan Business School in Ann Arbor where he was a Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellow.
Prior to joining SLCG, he was employed for 11 years by Smith Breeden Associates in Durham, North Carolina where he was a principal and director of mortgage research.
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Smith Breeden Associates, Inc.
 Smith Breeden Associates, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Smith Breeden Associates employs a variety of investment strategies including indexing, hedging, social screening and quantitative. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, energy minerals, electronic technology, healthcare technology and consumer non-durables sectors. They invest globally, across all market-caps, with emphasis on the stocks of large-cap companies. SBA's fixed-income approach seeks to determine a fixed-income security's relative value. The firm employs quantitative research to identify high credit quality investments with the potential to generate risk-adjusted returns in excess of market returns. Their primary determinant of relative value is the option-adjusted spread to US Treasuries. The firm's fixed-income investment strategy is designed to generate a consistent and predictable return over the client's preferred benchmark. SBA's strategy emphasizes sector and security selection, duration targeting and high credit quality. The firm uses proprietary models to project mortgage prepayments, to identify price options embedded in agency MBS and corporate bonds, to price corporate bond credit risk, as well as to predict the future returns of major asset classes. | Analyst-Fixed Income | 2009-03-30 |
Enron Corp.
 Enron Corp. Integrated OilEnergy Minerals Provides energy related services | Corporate Officer/Principal | 1998-01-30 |
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General Dynamics Corp.
 General Dynamics Corp. Aerospace & DefenseElectronic Technology Operates as an aerospace and defense company which provides aviation, ship construction and repair, land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions & technology products and services | Electronic Technology |
Smith Breeden Associates, Inc.
Smith Breeden Associates, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Smith Breeden Associates employs a variety of investment strategies including indexing, hedging, social screening and quantitative. Though not limited by sector or market-cap, the firm tends to invest in the stocks of companies in the finance, energy minerals, electronic technology, healthcare technology and consumer non-durables sectors. They invest globally, across all market-caps, with emphasis on the stocks of large-cap companies. SBA's fixed-income approach seeks to determine a fixed-income security's relative value. The firm employs quantitative research to identify high credit quality investments with the potential to generate risk-adjusted returns in excess of market returns. Their primary determinant of relative value is the option-adjusted spread to US Treasuries. The firm's fixed-income investment strategy is designed to generate a consistent and predictable return over the client's preferred benchmark. SBA's strategy emphasizes sector and security selection, duration targeting and high credit quality. The firm uses proprietary models to project mortgage prepayments, to identify price options embedded in agency MBS and corporate bonds, to price corporate bond credit risk, as well as to predict the future returns of major asset classes. | Finance |
Enron Corp.
Enron Corp. Integrated OilEnergy Minerals Provides energy related services | Energy Minerals |
Cornell University
 Cornell University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Oregon State University
 Oregon State University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
University of Michigan
 University of Michigan Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
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