Jørgen Nielsen Kjaersgaard

Mr. Jørgen N.
Kjaersgaard is a Co-Head of European Fixed Income & Director at AllianceBernstein Ltd.
He is responsible for all of firm’s European and UK corporate credit–related strategies, and heads the European and UK High Yield and Investment Grade Credit portfolio-management teams.
He is a member of the Credit, High Yield, European High Yield, Global High Income, Multi-Sector Credit, and UK and Euro Fixed Income portfolio-management teams.
He is also a member of the internal Credit Research Review Committee, the primary investment policy and decision-making committee for all firm’s credit-related portfolios.
He has over 25 years of experience.
Prior to joining AllianceBernstein in 2007 as a Portfolio Manager for European Credit, he was Executive Director for Structured Credit Solutions at Rabobank (2005–2007) and a Director for Nordic Structured Solutions at Royal Bank of Scotland (2004–2005).
From 1994 to 2004, Mr. Kjaersgaard worked in both London and Copenhagen for Danske Bank, where he spearheaded the firm’s credit derivatives trading and managed-mortgage and corporate credit portfolios.
Mr. Kjaersgaard holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an Master's degree in Business Science in Finance from the Aarhus School of Business at Aarhus University.