Stephen A. Walsh
Start Date: 01/31/2006
Walsh is a chief investment officer of Western Asset Management Company since September 2008. Prior to joining Western in 1990, he was a portfolio manager at Security Pacific Investment Managers from 1989 to 1991. Prior to that, Walsh was a portfolio manager at Atlantic Richfield Company from 1981 to 1988.He has over 27 years of investment experience
Douglas S. Swanson
Start Date: 05/05/2009
Swanson has been employed by JPMorgan Investment Advisors and/or predecessor firms since 1983. Previously he was managing director of the taxable bond team for Banc One Investment Advisors and was first vice president and manager at First Chicago NBD Corporation.
Carl Eichstaedt
Start Date: 02/05/2007
Eichstaedt is portfolio manager with Western Asset Management, his employer since 1994. Prior to joining the firm, he was a portfolio manager for Harris Investment Management. He was also a portfolio manager with Pacific Investment Management from 1992-1993. From 1990-1992, he was director of fixed income at Security Pacific Investment Managers.He has over 22 years of investment experience, Eichstaedt holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Mark Lindbloom
Start Date: 02/05/2007
Lindbloom joined Western Asset in 2005 as a portfolio manager. Prior to Western Asset, he worked for Citigroup Asset Management as a portfolio manager from 1986 to 2005; Brown Brothers Harriman Co. as a portfolio manager from 1981 to 1986 and The New York Life Insurance Company as an analyst from 1979 to 1981.He has over 30 years of investment experience
Tad Rivelle
Start Date: 01/31/2006
Rivelle, a generalist portfolio manager and MWAM's chief investment officer, who is responsible for developing the Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC's long-term economic outlook that guides strategies.
Laird Landmann
Start Date: 01/31/2006
Laird Landmann is a generalist portfolio manager, whose role is to co-manage security selection and the trade execution process for Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC. He has 21 years of investment experience and has been with MWAM since founding it in 1996.
Kenneth S. Leech
Start Date: 01/31/2006
Leech transitioned into a CIO Emeritus role in September 2008 and joined Western Asset as Chief Investment Officer in 1990. Prior to joining Western in 1990, he was a portfolio manager with Greenwich Capital Markets from 1988 to 1990; the First Boston Corporation from 1980 to 1988; and the National Bank of Detroit from 1977 to 1980.He has over 32 years of investment experience.
Detlev Schlichter
Start Date: 01/31/2009
Schlichter has been employed by Western Asset Management Company Limited as a portfolio manager since December 2001. He is responsible for portfolio structure, including sector allocation, duration weighting and term structure decisions.Prior to that, he was the director of European Bond Team, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, 1998-2001. He has over 18 years of investment experience.
Stephen Kane
Start Date: 01/31/2006
STEPHEN KANE Generalist Portfolio Manager and Corporate Bond Specialist Prior to founding Metropolitan West Asset Management, he was a fixed income portfolio manager at Hotchkis and Wiley. Before that, he was VP & fixed income specialist at the Pacific Investment Management Company. Mr. Kane was responsible for managing client relationships on accounts totaling approximately $7 billion.
Edward Moody
Start Date: 02/05/2007
Moody has served for Western Asset as portfolio managers for over ten years. He worked as a portfolio manager at the National Bank of Detroit. He is responsible for portfolio structure, including sector allocation, duration weighting and term structure decisions. Mr. Moody joined Western Asset as a portfolio manager in 1985.He has over 32 years of investment experience.
Thomas M. O'Connor
Start Date: 01/31/2008
O'Connor joined Wells Capital Management in 2003 as a portfolio manager and is responsible for identifying value in mortgages. Prior to joining Wells Capital Management, he was a portfolio manager in the Fixed Income Division of Montgomery Asset Management from 2000 to 2003. O'Connor holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Troy Ludgood
Start Date: 01/31/2008
Ludgood joined Wells Capital Management in 2004 as a senior credit trader and was promoted to director of credit training in 2006 and portfolio manager in 2007. Prior to joining Wells Capital Management, he was a trader at Lehman Brothers since 2000.
Lynne Royer
Start Date: 01/31/2008
Royer currently serves as a senior portfolio manager of the Montgomery Fixed Income Strategies Team at Wells Capital Management. Prior to joining Wells Capital Management, she was a senior analyst in the Fixed Income Division of Montgomery Asset Management since 1996.
Bill Stevens
Start Date: 01/31/2008
Stevens founded the fixed income team in 1992 at Montgomery Asset Management (Montgomery), which was acquired by Wells Fargo & Company in 2003, and began his investment career in 1984.