Claire Cairney is Head of Investment Research at Hymans Robertson. She has over 20 years’ investment experience and is head of our Investment Research team. Claire leads on our alternative credit research and has spent the last few years focused on expanding our asset class knowledge on markets which have predominantly evolved from ongoing bank deleveraging, including corporate direct lending. Claire works closely with client consultants to develop our views on how clients can access attractive debt opportunities and with managers to develop mandate solutions. Claire has been at Hymans Robertson for over 13 years. Prior to joining Hymans Robertson Claire worked at Morgan Stanley Investment Bank in a risk management function and at Abbey National as an equity dealer.