Michael Balboa

Responsible for managing the Millennium Global Emerging Credit Fund, Mike has over ten years' experience managing emerging markets fixed income securities.
From 1992 to 1995, he worked for Salomon Brothers in New York as an analyst of emerging market bond markets before leaving to co-manage the Strategos Fund, an emerging markets hedge fund founded in 1995.
The Strategos Fund was ranked 4th in 1996 and 9th in 1997 by Micropal and the Wall Street Journal for the category of global emerging markets.
Subsequently, in 1999, he joined Greenwich Europe Ltd as a Manager of Emerging Markets Sales and Trading, where he was responsible for building the emerging markets debt trading desk.
From 2003 to 2006, Mike was actively involved in the management of the top performing Rainbow Advisor's emerging markets funds as well as the Rainbow Macro fund, which have compounded returns of over 20% per annum with particular specialisation in short selling credit strategies.
Mike is registered with the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Mike is a graduate of Hofstra University with a Bachelor's with highest honours in Finance and Economics.