Jayanth Ganesan Email & Phone Number

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

• Manage real estate credit direct investment for Legal and General Retirement America (LGRA), leading asset origination, underwriting, and asset management for assets in pension risk transfer (PRT) and PRT protection-backed investment portfolios o Support participation in public (i.e., structured credit) and private deals backed by real estate debt investments across a variety of asset classes, including residential credit (non-agency), commercial credit (core, transitional, opportunistic), and real asset credit (green lending, private placements) o Help manage all aspects of the deal lifecycle, including analysis and underwriting, debt structuring, legal, due diligence, loan docs review/negotiation, and risk analysis in collaboration with external investment managers and teams within various L&G entities, such as LGRI (UK), LGC (UK), LGRe (BM) and LGIMA (US)• Work with senior team members to identify investment opportunities, leveraging existing networks, and support the introduction of new real estate sub-asset classes following appropriate governance o Manage internal deal review and approval process by developing credit memos, financial models, and relevant materials for real estate credit transactions o Perform research on real estate sector and market fundamentals, and work with senior team members to maintain structural modeling (i.e., prepayment) assumptions for relevant asset classes

New York, New York, United States

• Specialized in commercial mortgage research supporting debt origination, asset management, portfolio management, capital markets, and client services o Constructed mortgage relative value model used in the debt origination evaluation process and debt asset ranking model to improve internal loan asset management o Provided investment recommendations to NRE’s pension and third-party debt fund portfolio managers o Developed high-yield, distressed, and emerging market debt investment frameworks• Conducted sector, market, and macroeconomic research that supports all CRE investment analysis o Helped develop machine learning-based rent growth models for core sector investment analysis o Published several articles online (e.g., Resilient Cities, Industrial Staying Power, Managing Risk Amid Uncertainty with CRE Debt, and Analyzing Global Cities in the 2020s); Work published in AFIRE (Resilient Cities) and PREA Quarterly (Analyzing Global Cities) and featured in Globe Street, Commercial Property Executive, and Commercial Observer o Developed investment analysis for alternative sectors, such as student housing, lodging, and gaming

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Successfully completed three-year analyst program in Nuveen’s fixed income division; assisted the CMBS investment team in security selection and portfolio management by using quantitative and analytical tools• Conducted surveillance and underwriting of CMBS portfolio holdings by evaluating commercial real estate loans, performing comparative analysis, analyzing portfolio metrics, auditing trades, and writing credit reviews• Gained experience underwriting loans backing all categories of commercial real estate properties and helped initiate the valuation process for the purchase of Freddie-K, SASB, and CRE CLO securities

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Worked with the Management Reporting and Accounting (MRA) team to enhance Financial Management Information Delivery (FMID)• Created a new master product hierarchy to improve data management capabilities and product organization for CFP&A division

Ireland

• Organized client information for compliance purposes; work involved reviewing and analyzing pension fund financial arrangements for 30+ clients, collecting data, and analyzing corporate client reports

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics & Computer Science

High School Diploma