Securitization: Overview, Latest Developments, Valuation Implications

Leveraging over two decades of experience, Jen provides valuation and advisory services in Lincoln’s Valuations & Opinions Group. She focuses across the gamut of fixed income structured products and the related underlying asset classes including, but not limited to, residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), as well as other asset-backed securities (ABS). She works with private equity sponsors, hedge funds, banks, insurance companies, specialty finance companies, administrators, trustees and other investors and issuers of fixed income structured products. Jen’s extensive experience includes pricing, trading, structuring and analyzing complex financial instruments. Having spent the first 10 years of her career in the market trading fixed income structured products across the capital structure, she gathered the tools to analyze and value a wide range of asset classes and uses this knowledge to provide creative and thoughtful solutions and advisory services. Prior to joining Lincoln, Jen was a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps in the firm’s alternative asset advisory practice. Previously, she was a Senior Trader and Portfolio Manager for Tower Research Capital’s Distressed Mortgage and ABS Fund. Prior to that, she was a Senior ABS Analyst at Marathon Asset Management and Dynamic Credit Partners and started her career at JP Morgan. Jen received a Master of Science in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, a Bachelor of Science in economics with concentrations in finance, accounting and information systems from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania’s Engineering School.