Jason Edwards is a managing director and trader for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ liquid credit strategies, where he is responsible for broadly syndicated loan, high yield bond, and structured credit trading.

Prior to joining Kayne Anderson, Edwards spent nine years at Ares Management, where he was most recently a principal and trader for the tradable credit group focused on credit, equity and derivative portfolios comprising roughly $20 billion of assets. Before his time as a trader at Ares, he was head of the portfolio risk and analytics group providing detailed analysis on portfolio positioning, market trends and risk metrics. Prior to Ares, Edwards worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the real estate business advisory group, providing valuation and assurance services for institutional clients.

Edwards earned a B.S. in Finance with a minor in Real Estate from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.