Vanessa Ritter

Vanessa Ritter

Head of Leveraged Finance

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Vanessa Ritter, Head of Leveraged Finance at BNP Paribas Asset Management, is responsible for overseeing EUR 6.2 billion of assets across high yield bonds, leveraged loans and mid-market strategies. Vanessa is responsible for a 19-person team based in New York, London and Paris.

She has 30 years of investment experience primarily in leveraged loans, private placement bonds and corporate banking. Vanessa joined BNP Paribas in 2008 through a predecessor firm, Fortis Investments, from Genworth Financial where she was the Credit Risk Management Leader for the Private Placement Fixed Income Group overseeing an USD 11 billion bond portfolio. She was responsible for approving all new investments, recommending new deal structures, conducting impairment reviews and selecting collateral for three CDOs.

Prior to Genworth, Vanessa was Senior Corporate Credit Analyst and Risk Manager for the Royal Bank of Canada, where she analyzed and approved deals for a diversified portfolio of global credits. Vanessa holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business. She is a CFA Charterholder. Vanessa is based in New York.

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Talking heads – Opportunity knocks for global loans

Senior secured corporate loans are debt instruments similar to high-yield bonds in that they are rated below investment-grade (Ba1/BB+). They…

By Vanessa Ritter & other authors

12/09/22

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Talking heads – Opportunity knocks for global loans