Dave Klein

Founded in 2004, Credit Derivatives Research LLC (CDR) is an independent credit research firm located in New York City with additional offices in Chicago and Walnut Creek, California. Their clients include banks, brokers, hedge funds, investment managers, pension funds and other institutional investors in the corporate credit markets. The firm provides market updates, trading ideas and strategies, research advisory and support services and analytics. CDR recommends positions in CDs, indices, equities and bonds. They also specialize in capital structure arbitrage analysis. In addition, the firm develops and tracks credit indices for use in identifying market opportunities and trading strategies. CDR owns and publishes the CDR Counterparty Risk Index.