20+ Years of Global CLO Investment & Credit Experience You Can Count On

Before establishing CLO Research Group, Poh-Heng  was employed at The Blackstone Group from July 2008 to March 2019. In this capacity, he served as a portfolio manager (of SMAs–AAA/AA as well as CLO Equity Investment) and the principal trader of global CLO securities (predominantly CLO BB/Equity) across numerous credit funds. He was an active member of the Global Structured Credit Investment Committee. Furthermore, Poh-Heng played a crucial role in analysing U.S. and European CLOs, which included conducting due diligence on CLO managers and scrutinising underlying portfolios and CLO structures. Poh-Heng is a frequent speaker at CLO events.

Prior to joining the Blackstone Group in 2008, Poh-Heng worked at Washington Square Investment Management a specialist structured credit investment manager in London where he was part of the team managing a CLO vehicle listed on the London Stock Exchange. He was also part of the team that created an in-house Monte Carlo simulation model for the analysis of CLO investments.

Earlier in his career, he worked at DBS Bank, S&P, IDEAglobal and IBJ focusing on fixed income, loans and structured credit products.

Poh-Heng received his Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Financial Analysis from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was awarded the Ernst & Young Gold medal for Derivatives Securities Analysis and is a CFA Charterholder.