Spring Lake Asset Management, Inc is an investment manager co-founded by Tom Caldwell and Chris Crosby in 2014. The team has decades of trading experience on institutional level trading desks.
Benjamin Franklin
20+ years experience as institutional municipal credit analyst
High yield specialist focusing on distressed and special situation credits. Extensive default “work-out” experience
Former Managing Director and Head of Municipal Credit at Raymond James & Associates
Credit expertise in the range of municipal sectors. Sector expertise includes:
Transportation, Housing, Higher Education, Senior Living, Tobacco, Utilities, Project Finance & Tax Secured GOs
BA Economics Vanderbilt University; MBA Boston University
30+ years experience in the municipal market
Institutional trading skills:
Flow trading, high grades, story bonds and taxable municipal bonds
Former Managing Director of Municipal Trading at Samuel A. Ramirez and Company
Former institutional municipal trader and underwriter at Raymond James and Associates, Kemper Securities, and Prescott, Ball and Turban
BA Michigan State University; MBA Wayne State University
17+ years experience in the municipal market
Former Managing Director of Municipal Trading at Samuel A. Ramirez and Company
Former Associate, Municipal Derivatives and Structured Products, UBS Investment Bank
Former Analyst, Municipal Investment Banking, UBS Investment Bank
BA Finance University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business
13+ years experience in the municipal market
Former Vice President at Barclays Investment bank in municipal trading
Experience trading tax exempt municipals across the credit and maturity spectrum
Chartered Financial Analyst® designation - 2016
BS in Applied Economics and Management with a focus on Finance from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Business
20+ years experience with institutional hedge and real money fund strategies
Former Executive Director at JP Morgan Investment Bank
Former Director at UBS Investment Bank
Former COO and CCO of an equity long/short fund
Strong institutional and administrative skills including control environments and regulatory oversight
Leonard N Stern School of Business, New York University, Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance
BA Economics and Business, Lafayette College
Former Division 1 Scholar Athlete
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