Dinosaur Group hires from Oppenheimer for new credit unit
New York-based investment firm Dinosaur Financial Group has hired Robert Rahman to head up its new credit unit.
Rahman will oversee the sales, trading and research business across the US, Europe and Asia for the division, featuring strategies from corporate investment grade and high yield, to private credit and special situations.
Prior to joining Dinosaur Group, which counts the US-based investment firm and London-based Dinosaur Merchant Bank as subsidiaries, Rahman worked within the capital markets division of Oppenheimer and Co. Previously he has also been a senior member of Morgan Stanley’s high yield sales team.
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The company said that its new global corporate credit securities division will look to provide clients with an alternative to the bulge bracket that will not compete with them.
“Robert’s deep client and issuer relationships along with his previous success in leading and building global credit teams will help the group to provide institutional clients with an additional liquidity platform for one stop credit trading across the world. We are very excited to see the new business grow under his leadership,” said Glenn Gossman, chief executive of Dinosaur Group.
Rahman added: “Sourcing trading block paper is nuanced and requires deep and long-standing client relationships from the trader, analyst, PM and CIO level. The new team will look to gain fixed income clients’ trust, add value and provide liquidity while so many competitors retrench.”
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