High yield rating

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Do people with high yield rating experience from CRA build relevant experience to lateral to lev. finance financial sponsor or M&A group? curious how cra analysts are seen by IB recruiting team.

Interested in credit investment/resesrch at an AM or one of product groups mentioned above.

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