Terry Benzschawel

Terry Benzschawel holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology and has held post-doctoral fellowships in optometry, ophthalmology, and engineering prior to embarking on a career in Finance. His financial career began in 1988 with Chase Manhattan Bank modeling corporate bankruptcy and his focus since then has been on risky debt of consumers, sovereign nations, and corporations. Terry joined the fixed income arbitrage group at Salomon Brothers in 1992 focusing on pricing models and risk management of emerging market cash and synthetic obligations until 1998 when he moved to fixed income strategy. Since then, his main focus has been on US corporate debt, with recent emphasis on credit models as applied to structured products, credit derivatives, and capital structure arbitrage.

He currently heads the Quantitative Credit Trading Strategy group within Citi Global Markets.