CHICAGO – Mesirow Financial has appointed Blake Anderson to a newly-created position leading client portfolio strategy in its institutional sales and trading group.
Anderson, who is a managing director in the Chicago-based firm's San Francisco office, will hold the title of director of client portfolio strategy as of July 1, the firm said Monday. Anderson will relocate to Boston to be closer to key clients and to expand the firm's presence on the East Coast. He will report to Dominick Mondi, president of capital markets.
"Blake's appointment as director of client portfolio strategy comes as a result of his decades of experience in municipals and high-yield research paired with his background as a senior high yield portfolio manager and director of research," Mondi said in a statement.
As part of the new position, Anderson is charged with engaging with the firm's institutional investor clients to provide high yield research and insights across the firm's platform.
"He will lead strategic and confidential conversations with clients focusing on portfolio strategies, opportunities, risks and liquidity, and relative values," the statement said. "Anderson will also focus on distressed securities, including workout and restructuring support."
Anderson joined the firm in 2014. Previously, he held positions as a partner at Social Sphere Strategies, a managing partner at Anderson Tuttle Properties, and a managing director at Putnam Investments. At Putnam, he served as director of the high-yield team, senior portfolio manager and director of tax-exempt research.
Mesirow's institutional sales and trading department has more than 150 employees with desks specializing in municipals, rates, corporates, preferred and non-agency mortgages.
