Baird Fixed Income Capital Markets Promotes Bolger
MILWAUKEE, January 7, 2025 – The Fixed Income Capital Markets group at Baird today announced that Chris Bolger has been named Institutional Fixed Income Trading Manager. The promotion follows the retirement of Bob Debastiani, longtime Institutional Fixed Income Trading Manager, who retired in December after more than 24 years at the employee-owned international services firm.
Bolger has 25 years of institutional fixed income trading experience, most recently serving as Baird’s Securitized Products Trading Manager. In addition to Baird, Bolger has held trading positions at RBS and Jefferies as an Asset-Backed Securities and Non-Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities Trader. Bolger is a member of both the Financial Risk Management Committee at Baird as well as the Fixed Income Capital Markets Committee, further emphasizing his leadership within the business.
We are thrilled to be able to leverage our immense depth of talent and promote from within. Bob Debastiani and Chris Bolger have been working closely over the past several years which will create a seamless transition. We are looking forward to continued leadership from Chris as we further enhance the capabilities of our platform.
Pat Lawton, Director of Fixed Income Capital Markets at Baird
About Fixed Income Capital Markets
Baird’s Fixed Income Capital Markets platform is composed of seasoned professionals focusing on Sales & Trading and Public Finance. Our Sales & Trading team delivers precise trade execution, timely analysis and unique ideas from a team of tenured product specialists in the areas of corporate credit, government and agency, municipal and securitized products. We continue to strategically grow our business by expanding our product expertise, service offerings and broadening our reach in both the United States and the U.K. to best support the needs of our clients and institutional investors.
About Baird
Putting clients first since 1919, Baird is an employee-owned, international wealth management, asset management, investment banking/capital markets and private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Baird has approximately 5,200 associates serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients and more than $455 billion in client assets as of June 30, 2024. Committed to being a great workplace, Baird ranked No. 34 on the 2024 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list – its 21st consecutive year on the list. Baird is the marketing name of Baird Financial Group. Baird’s principal operating subsidiaries are Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and Baird Trust Company in the United States and Robert W. Baird Group Ltd. in Europe. Baird also has an operating subsidiary in Asia supporting Baird’s investment banking and private equity operations. For more information, please visit Baird’s website at www.rwbaird.com.
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