Alina Golant, CFA

Alina Golant, CFA, is a senior fixed income strategist and is a specialist in high yield credit. Alina brings with her over twenty years of experience following and analyzing the high yield market. Alina specializes in the energy, utilities, energy transition, basics, and other industries and is well versed in bringing investment banking deals to market.

Currently, Alina works as a Senior Credit Analyst/Desk Strategist at SMBC. In her role, Alina provides trade ideas and recommendations to the high yield trading desk and clients and is helping build SMBC’s high yield effort in the U.S. Prior to her role at SMBC, Alina led high yield research for the UBS Chief Investment Office and worked in sell-side research at BNP Paribas, Barclays, and Scotiabank.

Alina is a CFA Charterholder since 2009 and is a member of the CFA Institute, New York Society of Security Analysts, and Fixed Income Analysts Society (FIASI). Alina is a board member and chairs FIASI’s membership committee and holds the Series 7 and 63 securities licenses. Alina graduated magna cum laude from New York University’s Stern School of Business, majoring in finance and honors economics and was the winner of the Jules B. Backman prize in economics. Outside of work, Alina is an avid skier and enjoys hiking, boating, traveling, and spending time outdoors with her family.