Bio
Beth Forbes is Head of Product Strategy for Morningstar Credit Information and Analytics (MCIA), where she manages emerging trends, technologies, and partnerships to build non-credit ratings products. MCIA offers issuers and investors credit products and services beyond DBRS Morningstar’s independent credit ratings. MCIA empowers credit market decision makers with tools and information that lead to faster, insightful, and more predictable outcomes.
Beth also manages a team of CMBS analysts who provide monthly investigation and analysis of loan-, property-, and pool-level performance for the U.S. CMBS market.
Before joining Morningstar, Beth was an asset manager for Hanover Street Capital, where she performed workouts of specially-serviced and non-performing loan portfolios.
Beth has 19 years of experience in structured finance and commercial real estate. She has worked in floating-rate lending at GMAC Commercial Mortgage and later as a senior surveillance officer. Beth was also a credit analyst for Capmark Investments and Ventras Capital, performing analysis of securities held in in managed funds, collateralized debt obligations, and on the balance sheet.
Beth holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Villanova University.