Barry Weiss

Senior Director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency

Speaker

Barry D. Weiss is a Senior Director in the Financial Institutions ratings group at Kroll Bond Rating Agency. Barry joined KBRA in 2016 as a member of the Financial Institutions team focusing on specialty finance and fund ratings. Most recently, Barry was a Director in the Financial Institutions group at Standard & Poor’s as a member of the Global Fund Ratings Team. In this capacity, Barry was responsible for analyzing and assigning ratings to a broad range of globally managed funds such as money funds, bond funds, separate accounts and government investment pools.

Before joining Standard & Poor’s, Barry had assumed the position of Portfolio Manager/Director of Research upon founding Arrowhead Credit Research Corporation to deliver actionable investment guidance to Institutional clients. Before his work at Arrowhead Credit Research, Barry was a Portfolio Manager for Oppenheimer Funds Inc., in charge of making investment decisions and setting portfolio strategy for the Centennial Money Market Trust, the Centennial Government Trust, the Oppenheimer Cash Reserves, and the Oppenheimer Money Fund/VA. In January 2008, i-MoneyNet named Barry Portfolio Manager of the Year, as Oppenheimer Cash Reserves was its category’s highest gross return for 2007. Previously, he worked at Fitch IBCA, Inc., where he was an Associate Director in the Structured Finance Group, and before that, Barry spent eight years in the Office of the Mayor, Office of Management and Budget of the City of New York.

Barry earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Dakota, a master of fine arts degree from Brooklyn College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.