Experts
Christian Clayton
Strategist
Mr. Clayton is an executive vice president in the Newport Beach office. He leads product strategy for PIMCO’s private strategies platform in the Americas, responsible for corporate, asset-based, multi-asset public and private credit, and tax-efficient strategies. As part of this role he leads product strategy for PIMCO’s global wealth alternatives platform. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2014, he worked in the investment banking division at Citigroup in Hong Kong. He holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. Mr. Clayton received an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University.
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From residential credit and consumer lending, to aviation finance, equipment leasing, and music royalties, Asset-Based Finance ("ABF") covers a wide range of lending specialties. Investments in these areas can offer attractive income backed by hard assets, and help to diversify portfolios away from more crowded areas of the private credit landscape. Join PIMCO experts Kris Kraus and Christian Clayton, alongside host Greg Hall, to trace the development of private credit since the Global Financial Crisis and to learn how new frontiers in the space open up new possibilities for advisors and their clients.
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