Scott Minerd

Former Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners

1959–2022

Scott Minerd was a founding and managing partner at Guggenheim Partners. In his role as Global Chief Investment Officer, he guided the firm’s investment strategies and oversaw client accounts across a broad range of fixed-income and equity securities.

Previously, Minerd was a managing director with Credit Suisse First Boston in charge of trading and risk management for the Fixed Income Credit Trading Group. In this position, he was responsible for the corporate bond, preferred stock, money markets, U.S. government agency and sovereign debt, derivatives securities, structured debt and interest rate swaps trading business units.

Prior to that, Minerd was Morgan Stanley’s London based European Capital Markets Products Trading and Risk Manager. He has also held capital markets positions with Merrill Lynch and Continental Bank. He also served as a Certified Public Accountant and worked for the public accounting firm of Price Waterhouse.

Minerd was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, where he helped advise the NY Fed President and senior management at the bank about the current financial markets and ways the public and private sectors can better understand and mitigate systematic risks. Minerd also worked with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, advising on research and analysis of private sector infrastructure investment, and is a contributing member of the World Economic Forum. He was a regularly featured guest and contributor to leading financial media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC where he shared insights on today’s financial climate.

Minerd held a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and had completed graduate work at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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