Role at La Mar

Mark is chief investment officer of La Mar Assets LLC.

Experience and Expertise

Mark has deep experience and almost three decades in credit investing. After graduating from college, he spent 5 years at Deloitte & Touche in New York, where he had varied responsibilities, including due diligence on corporate bond offering memorandums. While working at Deloitte and pursuing his MBA at night, he joined Goldman Sachs to work full time as a High Yield Research Analyst, subsisting through the dot com bubble and burst. Mark spent so much time at 85 Broad Street that his wife who used to fetch him at night and on weekends would refer to herself as a ‘Goldman Retriever’. Mark left New York for Greenwich, Connecticut in 2004 to join the asset management arm of the fast-growing reinsurance company Partner Re. There he was a Corporate Bond Portfolio Manager, Bond Trader, and Credit Research Analyst for 10 years surviving both the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis. He spent the next 10 years of his career as Lead Corporate Bond Portfolio Manager at GIC, the Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Government of Singapore, in New York City navigating the high yield and investment grade bond markets during the oil price collapse of 2015-2016, the stock market dive of 2018, the Covid pandemic in 2020, and the banking crisis of 2023. He earned a BS degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and was a member of the Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Honor Society. He received an MBA from The Stern School of Business at New York University, and also completed the CFA Investment Management Workshop at Harvard University. Mark is the author of Reminiscences of a Bond Operator: A Guide to Investing in Corporate Debt, published in 2024 by KDP Press. The CFA Institute lauded the book as “an attractive guide to corporate bonds, professionally focused yet accessible to analysts and portfolio managers of all experience levels.”

Outside La Mar Assets

Mark lives in Greenwich, Connecticut and enjoys spending time on Hatteras Island, North Carolina with his family. His daughter attends the Greenwich public school system, and he enjoys watching her act in plays and musicals. Mark is a Co-Founder of Central Park Running Club, and occasionally pitches in as running coach for long slow distance runs. He’s proud to have completed the New York City Marathon in 2021 and 2022.