Eric Beinstein is a Managing Director and Head of U.S. High Grade Credit Research and Strategy at JPMorgan. As the High Grade strategist he is responsible for JPMs outlook on the US Investment Grade corporate bond market including the market direction and sector allocation views.  He is also responsible for Credit Derivatives Research.  This includes research on market structure, quantitative analysis of CDS products, and coverage of the CDX suite of credit derivative indices.  Eric also manages the High Grade credit research team and with them produces analyses of corporate credit metrics and trends.  Eric has been the #1 ranked Institutional Investor Magazine research analyst for US HG Credit Strategy for the past eight years.  He has an undergraduate business degree from the Wharton School and an MBA from New York University.