John Morton, CFA, FRM

BA, Suffolk University 

John is the Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income and a Managing Director of Rexiter Capital Management. In this role, he is responsible for all of Rexiter’s emerging market fixed income investments and oversees the sovereign risk and relative value analysis. He has been working in the investment management field since 1987, with a focus on emerging market debt since the early 1990’s.

Prior to joining Rexiter, John was the Director of Global Credit Strategy for State Street Global Advisors where he was responsible for the fundamental and quantitative processes used for sovereign and corporate credit selection and portfolio management. He also developed portfolio analytic systems to manage emerging market debt, including optimization and risk management. John is an experienced credit analyst with an extensive background in emerging market sovereigns and corporations. As an analyst, he created a sovereign credit risk model for analysis of debt servicing capability and to provide early warning for currency devaluation.

John earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the Boston Security Analyst Society and CFA Institute. John is a qualified Financial Risk Manager, as certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He is also a member of the J.P. Morgan Index Advisory Committee.