NewOak Hires Managing Director for Credit Solutions Group

Consulting and analytics firm NewOak announced the addition of a new senior member to its team of leaders. Triet M. Nguyen has been appointed as managing director of the company's Corporate and Municipal Credit Solutions Group.

Nguyen's career spans more than three decades, most recently seeing him serving as managing partner at Axios Advisors LLC, an independent municipal research and investment advisory firm he founded in 2002. Prior to that, he was SVP at B.C. Ziegler, where he traded tax-exempt high-yield and taxable municipal bonds. Other past roles include positions at Saybrook Capital LLC, ebondUSA, and John Hancock Funds.

Nguyen is also the author of Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market.

Serving at NewOak, Nguyen will be responsible for helping the firm's credit solutions team build out its capabilities and assisting clients in fundamental credit assessment, surveillance, and portfolio monitoring.

"In the age of big data, reduced liquidity and increasing complexity, a transparent and efficient fundamental approach to credit surveillance and portfolio monitoring is going to be critical for financial institutions seeking to improve credit oversight, risk and regulatory transparency," said NewOak CEO Ron D'Vari. "Triet brings a wealth of fundamental municipal and corporate credit expertise to the firm and will be a real driver of our expansion in these key areas going forward."

"NewOak stands at the intersection of two exciting trends in fixed-income research and risk management: the increasing application of fundamentally driven corporate and municipal bond research, modeling and forecasting techniques; and the application of technology to greatly enhance credit and surveillance efforts for institutional portfolios. I look forward to helping the NewOak team develop and implement these pioneering solutions for our clients," Nguyen said.