Michael Hayes
Executive Director, MSCI Research
Michael Hayes leads MSCI’s research on fixed income, derivatives and model validation. His current responsibilities include building tools to facilitate and streamline systematic credit investing. Prior to MSCI, Michael worked implementing and supporting all aspects of systematic credit, including signal generation, risk and portfolio management and foreign-exchange and interest-rate hedging. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Princeton University and a doctorate in chemical physics from the University of Colorado Boulder.