Professional: Mr. Clark is a principal of Government Portfolio Advisors and serves as the Director of Portfolio Management and Operations as well as a Senior Advisor. Mr. Clark began trading in the bond market in 1993 and has extensive experience in managing portfolios with allocations to US Treasury, Agency, Corporate bonds, ABS, and Commercial Paper. He joined Government Portfolio Advisors in 2015 as a Senior Advisor to public entities. Mike has been instrumental in helping cities, counties, school districts, housing authorities, water districts, park and recreation districts, port authorities, and many other special districts with implementing portfolio strategy. Mike is responsible for implementing fixed-income portfolio strategies and managing electronic trading platforms and transactional execution processes.
Prior to joining GPA, Mr. Clark served as Vice President Fixed Income Municipal Bond Trader and Underwriter for Wedbush Securities in Portland, Oregon. He was responsible for the secondary trading of five western states with a primary focus on Oregon and Washington. While at Wedbush Securities, Mr. Clark was the lead underwriter for the Local Oregon Capital Assets Program (LOCAP) and the Special Districts Association of Oregon (SDAO) pooled financing programs. Prior to Wedbush Mr. Clark served as a secondary market municipal bond trader for ten years at Seattle-Northwest Securities in Portland, Oregon.
Educational: Mr. Clark received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Oregon State University. He holds his series 63 and 65 FINRA advisory licenses with GPA. He has additional FINRA broker/dealer licenses that are currently inactive: 7 and 53. He has been an Investment Advisory Representative since 2015.
