Brendan Beer
Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager
Mr. Beer is a managing director and co-portfolio manager
for Oaktree’s Structured Credit strategy and Asset-Backed Finance
platform. He joined Oaktree in 2017, having previously worked at
Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, serving as a managing director and
co-head of structured credit. At Guggenheim, he managed a team
responsible for in excess of $40 billion, which performed credit analysis,
trading and risk management across private label RMBS, CMBS, ABS and CLOs, with
Mr. Beer specializing in CLOs and Esoteric ABS. Prior thereto, he was a
vice president at Citigroup Global Markets, as a secondary CDO trader and in
securitized products distribution. Mr. Beer previously spent eight years
in the Navy, as a division officer aboard a fast-attack nuclear submarine and
as a classroom physics and chemistry instructor. He earned an M.B.A. from
the University of Rhode Island, an M.S. in nuclear engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in mathematics (honors track)
with distinction from the United States Naval Academy.