Leadership

Alex Cha

Biography

Alex Cha is a Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer.  He serves as a member of the Investment and Executive Committees.  Alex is responsible for asset allocation, sector selection, asset selection, trading and risk management.  He joined 400CM from Banc of America Securities where he was the Head of ABS Credit Trading, responsible for a team of traders and quantitative analysts committing capital in private label residential mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives, whole loans and residuals. During his fourteen-year tenure at BAS, Alex also spent time in London developing the firm’s expertise in dollar and non-dollar denominated ABS as Head of European ABS trading and syndicate.  Prior to London, Alex‘s trading responsibilities included Head of Structured Finance, Collateralized Debt Obligations (“CDOs”) trading and syndicate, Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (“CMOs”) trading and ABS trading. Before joining the financial industry, Alex worked at Lockheed Martin where his primary responsibility was Naval Weapons Systems design for the U.S. Navy.  Alex holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.  Alex also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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