Sean J. Egan

President
Egan-Jones Ratings Co

Sean Egan is a founding partner and president of Egan-Jones Ratings Company (EJR), which was organized in 1992 for the purpose of providing timely, accurate credit ratings. Over the past decade, EJR provide risk managers with warnings on Ambac, Countrywide, Enron, Greece, Lehman, MBIA, New Century and many others well in advance of the majority of market participants. Fortune Magazine named Mr. Egan the number one person for warning about the 2007 credit crisis. Mr. Egan has appeared on most major media outlets and has testified numerous times in front of Congressional committees

Prior to founding Egan-Jones, Mr. Egan worked as a commercial banker for JP Morgan, as an investment banker for Oppenheimer, and as a management consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Egan graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo and received an MBA from Harvard University.

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Summit Day 2

Friday, March 6th, 2015

09:00 All Star Panel: Price takers to price makers - As dealers retrench, where and how can you find reliable pricing?

One of the toughest tasks for buy side money managers is price discovery. With regulations resulting in a reduction in the amount of inventory that investment banks are holding, alongside the ongoing liquidity drought, the role of price makers is shifting to the buy side, as money managers take on the responsibility of price makers. Our all star panel on day two, representing all corners of the industry, will provide expertise on:

Moving from a price maker to a price taker - how is it done and how can you generate accurate and reliable pricing?
Does the buy side now need to act more as liquidity providers and price makers rather than takers as increased inventory now exists on buy side books?
Is there a sufficient market infrastructure to facilitate a buy side price making model?
Debate - Should the buy side be more regulated now as they act as price makers as well as takers?
With the buy side acting more as price makers and warehousing risk - is there enough liquidity in stressed market conditions so the buy side can move risk?