Peter Coffin is founder and president of Breckinridge Capital Advisors, a Boston-based fixed income investment manager with over $35 billion in assets under management. Peter has over 35 years of experience in the investment industry. Before founding Breckinridge in 1993, Peter was a Senior Vice President with Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS), where he managed municipal bond portfolios and, as a member of the firm’s Fixed Income Policy Committee, shared oversight of all the firm’s fixed income strategies. Peter began his career as an analyst, first in the Bond and Money Market group of the Connecticut National Bank, and then in Aetna’s Bond Investment division. Peter received a BA with honors in classical studies from Hamilton College in 1982 and served on the college’s Board of Trustees.
Peter is currently serving as Chair of The Trustees of Reservations, the nation’s oldest preservation and conservation organization, and President of the Frontier Nursing University Foundation. Peter is also member of the President’s Council of Ceres and serves on Investor Advisory Group for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Previously, Peter has served on the boards of the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).