Scott Minerd

Mr. Byron S.
Minerd is a Chairman of Guggenheim Investments & Global Chief Investment Officer at Guggenheim Partners Investment Management LLC, a Chairman, Global Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner at Security Investors LLC, a Managing Partner at Guggenheim Partners LLC and a Member at The World Economic Forum USA, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at Guggenheim Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.
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He guides the Firm’s investment strategies and leads its research on global macroeconomics.
Previously, Mr. Minerd was a Managing Director with Credit Suisse First Boston in charge of trading and risk management for the Fixed Income Credit Trading Group.
In this position, he was responsible for the corporate bond, preferred stock, money markets, U.S.
government agency and sovereign debt, derivatives securities, structured debt and interest rate swaps trading business units.
Prior to that, he was Morgan Stanley’s London based European Capital Markets Products Trading and Risk Manager responsible for Eurobonds, Euro-MTNs, domestic European Bonds, FRNs, derivative securities and money market products in 12 European currencies and Asian markets.
He has also held capital markets positions with Merrill Lynch and Continental Bank.
Prior to that, he was a Certified Public Accountant and worked for the public accounting firm of Price Waterhouse.
He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, helping advise the NY Fed President about financial market developments, risks to the financial system and steps that can be taken to understand and mitigate these risks.
He holds a B.S.
degree in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and has completed graduate work at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.