Sergio Grasso

Biography

Senior investment and financial advisor for iason company for FINs and Funds, on risk modelling and solutions, HY, leverage finance, CLO activity. Manager for the UK iason branch, iason Iberia branch, and for OKMFinance UK. From 2020 to 2023 Chief Investment Officer of Gamalife (Apax Partners ownership), second largest Insurer in Portugal, for portfolio management: all fixed income in EGBs and credits (IG, HY); alternative and illiquid investments. Previously, in 2015, Founder of Accunia Credit Management, Managing Director, and Portfolio Manager at Accunia, a leading asset management firm in the Nordic region. General Manager for Cohen and Company London branch and Spanish branch, responsible for investments and CLO trading. Head of investments and asset allocation in capital markets and trading in Caja Madrid , then Bankia from 2001 to 2012. Before going to Spain, he was Head of Treasury for Banca Imi in the Group Imi-SanPaolo in the main activities of trading, market making in short IRS, liquidity and relationship with European Central Bank.

Researches

Europe: where is the structured credit market, beginning of March?

Direct lending in private market, still desirable?

From Seat-Based Growth to Systemic Intelligence: The AI Challenge for HY

The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown (Howard P Lovecraft)

The first month of 2026 in European credit

EMERIA, Where is the value?

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