Mike Balboa

Michael Balboa has over 18 years experience in sovereign credit analysis, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets and has been actively involved in a range of sovereign debt restructurings totaling over USD250 billion since 1994, in countries such as Bulgaria, Argentina, Bosnia, Ecuador, Russia, Nigeria and Poland.

Mike was Managing Director of Emerging Credit with a substantial emerging credit fund, where he was active as an investor in EM. Mike’s career began at Salomon Brothers in New York (1992 to 1995) as an analyst of emerging market bonds markets after which he co-managed the Strategos Fund, an emerging markets hedge fund founded in 1995. Subsequently, in 1999, Mike joined Greenwich Europe Ltd, where he was responsible for building the emerging markets debt trading desk. From 2003 to 2006, he was actively involved in the management of the top performing Rainbow Advisor’s emerging markets funds as well as the Rainbow Macro Fund, which had a particular specialization in short selling credit strategies. Mike is a graduate of Hofstra University with a Bachelor’s degree.