Steven Bavaria writes about finance, economics and politics, drawing on his forty years experience in international banking, credit, investment, human resources/training, journalism and public service. Now retired from his "day job" on Wall Street, Bavaria lives mostly off his investments (not to mention the "penny a click" from his Seeking Alpha articles, so please forward links to his articles to everyone you know or are related to, as college costs are rising!!) His focus is largely on income-oriented stocks, bonds and mutual funds, as well as closed-end funds, ETFs and other IRA-suitable investments.Bavaria began his career at the Bank of Boston, where he handled international credit workouts that ...More included managing a fleet of ships, chasing a Vatican-owned bank in Switzerland, and leading the turnaround of troubled branches in Australia and Panama. He also ran the bank's human resources department, which is where he saw "up close and personal" the beginnings of many of today's executive compensation excesses (another topic he writes about). More recently he worked at Standard & Poor's, where he introduced ratings to the leveraged loan market. In between Bank of Boston and S&P he was a reporter for IDD Magazine. Bavaria graduated from Georgetown University and New England School of Law.
