Finance, Structured
ABOUT US
Five Sigma is a London based investment firm bringing innovative solutions in the fixed income marketplace. We provide strategic buy/sell-side and ongoing portfolio management services in relation to a wide variety of credit products, facilitating institutional investment in public and private fixed income assets.
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BUY-SIDE
Five Sigma offers investors a modular and flexible suite of services that spans the whole investment lifetime, from origination to monetisation.
Origination
Execution
Valuation
Underwriting
Asset Management
Monetisation
SELL-SIDE
Five Sigma offers Originators and Corporates a modular and flexible suite of services allowing clients to build the right product and raise capital
Product Design
Execution
Investor Outreach
Scale Up
Monetisation
TEAM
Steve White
Steve started his career in 1985 and worked as a fixed income Portfolio Manager at The Pilgrim Group in Los Angeles and Neuberger Berman in New York. Subsequently, Steve spent over 13 years at Morgan Stanley where he was a Managing Director in the Securitisation Group responsible for Capital Markets and MBS/ABS origination. Prior to co-founding Five Sigma, Steve was a partner at AgFe for 13 years, heading the Capital Markets group. Steve was also European Chief Investment Officer at Cambridge Place Investment Management. Steve has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Michele Bisceglia
Before co-founding Five Sigma, Michele was a partner at AgFe, a London based asset manager, where he was responsible for a variety of mortgage and loan transactions as well as other investment advisory and asset management initiatives. He also led the development of innovative technological solutions to automate and simplify management of illiquid credit asset portfolios. Michele started his career at Raymond James Investment Services. Michele has a BSc (Hons) from Heriot-Watt University and a MSc in Finance from Strathclyde University.
Jonathan Clarke
Jonathan has over 10 years experience in finance of real assets including mortgage portfolios, aircraft lending, SME loans and trade receivables. His work often has a quantitative focus (risk, valuation, analysis of historical performance) and he also has a technology background, leading the software development team at FiveSigma. Jonathan has a PhD in Electronic Engineering and an MEng in Computer Science/Electronic Engineering, both from Imperial College, London
Mark Szymaniak
Mark is an analyst with a total of 3 years of experience in finance. He joined AgFe in September 2021 after graduating from the University of Bath with a BSc (Hons) Economics degree, in which he also undertook a 1-year placement at Jefferies.
Scott Anderson
Mattia Membola
Mattia is an experienced structured finance analyst with a background in quantitative analysis, specializing in financial modelling, data analytics and risk analysis. Mattia started his career at Commerzbank, where he has developed expertise in financial markets and proficiency in software development. Mattia holds a MSc in Finance from the Copenhagen Business School.
Alexander Pluckrose
Alex is a structured finance professional, with over 4 years of experience in the Structured Finance industry. Prior to joining AgFe in September 2022, Alex worked for both U.S. Bank and ARC Ratings. Alex holds a BA (Hons) German and Management Studies degree from the University of Reading and has completed level 1 of the CFA program.
Scott is a bilingual Computer Science with Management & Year in Industry graduate from King’s College London, with First Class Honours. Scott’s expertise lies within the use of statistical methods, data visualisation tools, and machine learning techniques to turn complex data into actionable insights to drive business decisions. Before joining AgFe in Sep 2022, he worked as a Quant Analyst within the Asset Allocation team at LGIM.
