John Eanes

John Eanes is a managing partner and head of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ liquid credit strategies, where he is responsible for diversified corporate credit strategies including broadly syndicated loans and high yield bonds.

Prior to joining Kayne Anderson, Eanes spent ten years at Ares Management in the firm’s tradable credit group, where he most recently was a partner and portfolio manager, co-heading the firm’s U.S. long-only liquid credit business comprising roughly $18 billion of assets, and where he sat on the firm’s investment committee for long-only syndicated credit investments in leveraged loans and high yield bonds. Eanes managed Ares’ $11 billion U.S. collateralized loan obligation (CLO) business from 2012 to 2016 and before that was a senior credit analyst covering a variety of industry sectors in the leveraged loan and high yield universe. During this period, Eanes sat on the board of directors of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) from 2015 to 2016. Prior to his time at Ares, Eanes was an analyst in the securitization banking group at Lehman Brothers, where he focused on structuring asset-backed securities for issuers with esoteric portfolios.

Eanes earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.