Fernando Guerrero is the head of the global Structured Product Team at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. The team is responsible for augmenting the presence of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in the global collateralized debt obligation market by leveraging the structured product expertise of the Team with the extensive capabilities of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers’ investment and research teams. Guerrero and his team focus on three primary activities: distribution, structuring and managing collateralized debt obligation risk.

Guerrero has more than 20 years of experience in structured credit markets and has worked on a number of first-of-its-kind transactions in the asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligation markets, including several “deals of the year.” Prior to joining Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, he established and led the global collateralized debt obligation business at ABN AMRO. Similarly, Guerrero served as head of the Structured Products group at TD Securities and founded the collateralized debt obligation business for that firm. Guerrero also helped establish Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette’s collateral debt obligation business as part of that firm’s high yield capital markets effort. Before joining Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette, he was a managing director at BT Securities, where he was responsible for the firm’s global structured finance business and emerging markets debt capital markets effort.

Guerrero has served on the Board of Trustees of the Princeton Charter School since 2004 and is currently its treasurer. The Princeton Charter School is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a model of excellence, meeting the nation’s goals of high standards and accountability.

Guerrero is a two-time alumnus of Louisiana State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1983 and a master’s degree in finance in 1984. He went on to graduate from the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.

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