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Harin de Silva

Portfolio Manager, Special Situations

Mr. de Silva is a managing director and portfolio manager in the New York office. He chairs PIMCO’s private strategies leadership team and has oversight of the portfolio management team focused on private strategies. In addition, Mr. de Silva co-leads the specialty finance team globally and is a lead portfolio manager for PIMCO's multi-sector private credit, asset-based lending, and opportunistic strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2009, he was a managing director at Merrill Lynch with a focus on structured credit. Mr. de Silva previously worked at Credit Suisse First Boston and Prudential Securities, focusing on structured finance, CDOs, and credit derivatives. He began his career in the actuarial department at Royal Sun Alliance. He has 29 years of investment experience and holds an MBA in analytical finance from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Davidson College in North Carolina.

Economic and Market Commentary

Aviation Finance: Capturing Opportunities in Private Credit

2/21/2024

Tune into an engaging discussion on aviation finance and learn how PIMCO has partnered with High Ridge Aviation to deliver funding solutions to this exciting area of specialty finance.

Harin de Silva

Economic and Market Commentary

Specialty Finance: The $20 Trillion Next Frontier of Private Credit

10/5/2023

A liquidity gap is growing as banks curtail specialty lending, providing specialty finance investors opportunities for potential better risk-adjusted returns than we’ve seen since the GFC.

Harin de Silva, Kristofer Kraus, Jason Steiner, Preeyam Gandhi

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