Eric Silvergold

Mr. Silvergold joined Guggenheim in June 2001.
Prior to joining Guggenheim, he was a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager with Lazard Asset Management where he headed Lazard's Global Structured Products Group and served as a member of Lazard's portfolio construction team.
At Lazard, he pioneered the utilization of insurance-linked securities as an alternative investment strategy within institutional fixed income portfolios.
Before joining Lazard in 1995, Mr. Silvergold was a Senior Fixed Income Engineer with Alliance Capital Management where he designed and developed fixed income trading, portfolio management, and analytic systems to enhance the performance of the mortgage, sector rotation, and municipal bond teams.
Prior to that, he spent six years at MetLife as an investment analyst.
While at MetLife, Mr. Silvergold initiated the early adoption of option-adjusted analytics, performance attribution techniques and key-rate duration based asset-liability management methodologies.
Mr. Silvergold earned his MBA in Finance and Statistics from the Stern School of Business at New York University and earned his BA in Economics from Rutgers University.