Michael Kao

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Mike has been in the investment business for ~30 years and has experience analyzing and investing in many markets and asset classes, spanning commodities to credit to convertible/capital structure/event arbitrage to distressed debt/equity investing. He began his career in the commodities unit at J. Aron/Goldman Sachs in NYC in the early 90’s. Previously he was partner and co-founder of the Canyon Arbitrage Fund at Canyon Partners. Mike stopped actively managing external capital in 2019 and now invests primarily for his family office and enjoys blogging about the markets and economy. Mike holds a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from UC, Berkeley and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.