Eric Del Monaco

Eric Del Monaco has over 23 years of experience in fixed income and derivatives. He has served in executive positions at several financial institutions, where he provided oversight over a wide range of asset classes including, but not limited to, corporate bonds, preferreds, private placements, leveraged loans, commercial whole-loans, CLOs, CMBS, RMBS, esoteric ABS, credit derivatives, interest rate derivatives, equity derivatives, treasuries, and repos. In addition to providing oversight to the market-making activities in these products, he also oversaw their design, structuring, and placement. He also worked extensively with both rating agencies and regulatory bodies such as the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), National Futures Association (NFA), National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and various state insurance and banking regulators.

Prior to founding EDM Research, Del Monaco served as Chief Risk Officer of American Life & Security (ALSC) from November 2020 until March 2022. In this role, he provided oversight for asset management, portfolio construction, reinsurance capacity, counterparty risk, and hedging, amongst other related responsibilities. As Chief Risk Officer, he developed the specifications for the investment and risk management infrastructure to evaluate company-level exposure to portfolio risks, including the required technology stack and oversight framework.

Prior to his role at ALSC, Del Monaco served as Head of Global Markets at Natixis CIB Americas, a global money-center bank headquartered in Paris, France. At Natixis, he was directly responsible for a business with over 140 employees and an over $30BN balance sheet; he served as a member of both the Global Markets and Americas committees. He was responsible for all front office risk related to markets activities across fixed income and equities and was the primary front office interface to regulatory stakeholders.

Throughout his career, Del Monaco worked extensively with some of the world’s largest life insurance companies on matters related to capital, balance sheet management, and investments. He spent six years at Nomura as a Managing Director and Head of Structuring, where he was responsible for structuring across all financial products in the Americas and served on the Nomura Americas Global Markets executive committee. Prior to Nomura, he ran Credit Structuring at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital in New York, where his specialties included credit derivatives, counterparty risk, and complex repackagings. He also spent five years as part of Citigroup’s European Credit businesses, working extensively with clients in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Del Monaco graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics with honors from Tufts University. He serves on the Board of Trustees for the Country School in Easton, Maryland, and is an active member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He also serves on the Board of Safeware, Inc., a national leader in public preparedness, providing public safety products to municipalities and first responders for over 40 years.