Blake Anderson

Mr. Blake Anderson is a Senior Managing Director-Institutional Sales & Trading at Mesirow Financial, Inc. He focuses on municipal securities and high-yield, tax-exempt and taxable bond research for institutional clients.
Prior to joining Mesirow Financial in 2011, he was a partner at Social Sphere Strategies, managing partner at Anderson Tuttle Properties and a managing director at Putnam Investments.
At Putnam, he was director of the High Yield Team, senior portfolio manager and director of tax exempt research while serving on the Executive, Risk Management and New Product committees.
Before that, he was a consultant at Coopers & Lybrand Actuarial and Benefits Consulting Group.
Prior to Coopers, Blake was a senior underwriter at Cigna Corp.
Mr. Anderson received his undergraduate degree from McGill University.