Marina Mets

Marina Mets

Head of Americas, Fixed Income & Convertibles FTSE Russell/LSEG
Marina Mets heads up Fixed Income & Convertibles in the Americas for FTSE Russell, an LSEG company. Building on her prior role in the Research team leading the Canadian Fixed Income business, Marina works closely with FTSE’s partners and key clients, including major asset owners, fund managers and investment banks to develop and broaden FTSE’s fixed income offering globally. Marina leads a team focused on targeted client engagement to design and provide index solutions, educate the market, connect the fixed income ecosystem, and profile use of indexes in investment portfolios and strategies across all asset classes. Marina has been with the Fixed Income Index business for almost 25 years, starting her career in the capital markets research team at Scotiabank, and continuing on with the Canada fixed income index business through its acquisition by TMX Group in 2006, and the subsequent acquisition by FTSE in 2013. Marina holds a Bachelor of Commerce, specializing in Finance, Accounting, and Economics, from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and is a CPA CMA.

Main Day 1 | 14th October

4:05 PM Buy Side Only Workshop 1: Designing Fixed Income workflows for the AI era

Discover how trusted fixed income data, AI and connected workflows can help investment professionals cut through market complexity and make faster, more informed decisions. This interactive workshop will showcase real-world applications of AI across investment workflows, demonstrating how LSEG's data and technology can transform fragmented information into actionable insight.


Session highlights:


  • AI Workflow Demo: See how portfolio managers, traders and sales professionals can use AI-powered workflows to quickly uncover trusted, actionable market insights.
  • FTSE Russell AI Demo: Explore how Index Module x AI can be applied to FTSE data for benchmark research, allocation strategy and custom index design.
  • Q&A with LSEG experts following the demonstrations. 

Main Day 2 | 15th October

12:10 PM Truth or Hype Interactive Panel: Navigating the Next Phase of the Credit Cycle: How can you protect portfolios as credit conditions tighten, dispersion grow and default risk increase?

As rate cycles mature and refinancing pressure builds, credit markets are showing greater dispersion between resilient and vulnerable issuers. Macro uncertainty is adding further volatility to funding conditions, while liquidity dynamics and restructuring risk are becoming more important to performance.

This session will examine how investment teams are adjusting sector exposure, strengthening credit selection and managing downside risk as the credit cycle evolves.


Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Marina.

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