Lise-Lotte Smith is a Director and Head of the Taxable SMA and Bond Research Team for Schwab Asset Management. Ms. Smith is responsible for credit and investment research for asset-backed commercial paper programs (ABCP), Nordic banks, and U.S. insurance companies.

Prior to joining Schwab in 2015, Ms. Smith was at BlackRock and was a part of the risk and quantitative analysis group responsible for asset-backed securities credit and investment risk analysis. At Barclays Global Investors, before merging with BlackRock in 2009, she was a credit analyst in the global cash management credit group. Prior to joining Barclays Global Investors in 2005, Ms. Smith was a research associate at Banc One Capital Markets.

Ms. Smith earned a Master of Science in business administration from Jönköping International Business School in Sweden.