William Lowry, CFA
William Lowry joined Market Realist in 2014. He has 20 years of investing and banking experience. Prior to Market Realist, he was a Principal with Sound Harbor Partners covering Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Commodities, Real Estate, Aerospace & Defense, and Financial Institutions. Before this, he was a Senior Analyst at Principal Financial Group, where he underwrote and managed over $1 billion of private assets (private placement and leveraged loans) and served on the International Fixed Income Credit Committee. He established the leveraged loan asset class at The Principal. Previously, Mr. Lowry was a Vice President at The Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, where he managed a $400 million portfolio of below–investment grade assets and advised on private equity investments. In addition, he worked for Société Générale as a Corporate Banking Officer and was an analyst at The Bank of Nova Scotia, where he was credit trained. Mr. Lowry earned a BA with two majors, Economics and English Literature, from Hope College and he earned an MBA from Thunderbird. Mr. Lowry is a CFA charter holder.
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