Peter Acciavatti‘s Biography

Peter Acciavatti is a Managing Director and Head of JPMorgan’s US High-Yield & Leveraged Loan Credit Strategy research team. He is responsible for providing US Credit Strategy research to JPMorgan’s clients.  For his coverage of the High Yield bond market he has been selected to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-America Fixed-Income Research Teams 19 consecutive years, receiving top honors 16 consecutive years. In addition Mr. Acciavatti was selected the top analyst the last 2 years covering the Distressed Debt market and he earned the #1 ranking covering the Leveraged Loan market in its inaugural year of voting. 

Mr. Acciavatti has spent the last 23 years covering the credit markets.  He began his career at Chemical Bank in the Middle Market Banking Group in 1994. Mr. Acciavatti holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Management Information Systems from Albany University, and an MBA degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.