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Thomas McLoughlin

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Thomas McLoughlin
​Tom McLoughlin is the Head of Fixed Income and Municipal Securities for the Americas within the UBS Chief Investment Office. He and his colleagues provide timely research on macroeconomic trends, corporate and municipal credit, preferred securities, closed-end funds, and public policy. The team’s monthly publications include the Fixed Income Strategist, Municipal Market Guide, Yield & Income, and ElectionWatch, among others.

Tom has spent 37 years in the fixed income markets and prior to joining UBS in 2010, served as CEO of National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation. Prior to his tenure at National, he held several positions at MBIA Insurance Corp., including Head of Global Public Finance, where he financed infrastructure projects in more than a dozen different countries.

Earlier in his career, he served as a vice president at Legg Mason where he advised local governments throughout the U.S. on the sale of municipal bonds. Prior to his tenure at Legg Mason, he was Assistant Director of the Government Finance Officers Association and a senior credit analyst at Moody’s Investors Service. Tom began his career as a staff member in the New York State Senate and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment.

Tom is a former chairman of the California Society of Municipal Analysts and former Governing Board Member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a master’s degree from George Washington University, and maintains Series 7, 24, 53, and 63 securities licenses.

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