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The investment seeks to maximize total return consistent with preservation of capital. The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in three classes of bonds and other fixed-income securities: U.S. investment grade securities, including U.S. government securities and mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities, and foreign investment grade corporate debt; U.S. and foreign high yield debt; foreign government securities. It may invest up to 100% of its assets in foreign securities. It may also invest in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and other inflation-linked bonds, repurchase agreements, mortgage dollar rolls, etc.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Rafael Zielonka | Portfolio Manager | 2023 | Now |
Biography | Mr. Zielonka is a Portfolio Manager and has served in various roles, including Portfolio Analyst and Trader, since he joined Western Asset in 2002. | ||
Annabel Rudebeck | Head | 2018 | Now |
Biography | Annabel Rudebeck is primarily responsible for the portfolio advisory services provided to the Desjardins SocieTerra Global Corporate Bond Fund. Ms. Rudebeck is a member of the Global Investment Strategy Committee (GISC) and the Global Credit Committee (GCC) and leads the global credit team in London. She is responsible for the day-to-day management of global credit portfolios as well as the development and implementation of the global credit investment strategy. Ms. Rudebeck holds a Master’s degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Honors) from Cambridge University. | ||
Mark S. Lindbloom | Portfolio Manager | 2006 | Now |
Biography | Mark S. Lindbloom , is a portfolio manager. Mr. Lindbloom is a Portfolio Manager at Western Asset and Western Asset Limited. Prior to joining the Firm in 2005, he worked as a portfolio manager at Citigroup Asset Management and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He worked in New York Life Ins. as ananlyst from 1978-1980. He hold M.B.A. from Pace University, B.S. from Rider University. | ||
Michael Buchanan | - | 2006 | Now |
Biography | Michael Buchanan is Western Asset's deputy chief investment officer and has been in the fixed-income industry since 1990. As Deputy CIO, Michael has direct oversight of Western Asset's Global Credit Team, which covers US and non-US investment-grade, high-yield and bank loan sectors. He also leads the Global Credit Committee, which ultimately determines overall firmwide credit themes. Prior to joining Western Asset in 2005, Michael served as Managing Director and Head of US Credit Products at Credit Suisse Asset Management and as Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Janus Capital Management. He also worked at BlackRock Financial Management as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager and at Conseco Capital Management as Vice President and Portfolio Manager. Michael graduated with honors from Brown University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and is a CFA charterholder | ||
S. Kenneth Leech | CIO (Chief Investment Officer) | 2014 | 2024 |
Biography | "Ken Leech is Western Asset's Chief Investment Officer and has more than 45 years of industry experience. Ken joined the Firm in 1990, and from 1991 to 2021, assets under management grew from just over $5 billion to $408 billion. Ken now leads the Global Portfolios, US Broad Portfolios and Macro Opportunities Teams. He also serves on the Market & Credit Risk Committee, which determines and monitors internal and external risk guidelines, and reviews market and credit risk issues. From 2002-2004, he served as a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee. | ||
Carl L. Eichstaedt | Portfolio Manager | 2006 | 2019 |
Biography | 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. He has a BS from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Eichstaedt holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. | ||
Chia-Liang Lian | Head | 2015 | 2018 |
Biography | Chia-Liang Lian is Head of Emerging Markets Debt at Western Asset. Mr. Lian joined Western Asset in 2011. Prior to joining Western Asset in 2011, Mr. Lian was with Pacific Investment Management Company for six years, where he served as Head of Emerging Asia Portfolio Management. Mr. Lian also spent eight years as a sovereign debt strategist at JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch. Previously, Mr. Lian was at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as Senior Economist responsible for formulating exchange rate policy. Mr. Lian holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Economics from the National University of Singapore, where he graduated as part of the MAS’ Finance Scholarship Programme. Mr. Lian is also a CFA® charterholder. | ||
Christopher N. Orndorff | Manager | 2013 | 2016 |
Biography | Christopher Orndorff, CFA, specializes in alternative strategies at Western Asset. Mr. Orndorff joined Western Asset in 2010 as a Portfolio Manager after serving nearly 20 years as Managing Principal and Executive Committee Member at Payden & Rygel. Mr. Orndorff has attained the CFA designation. He received his B.A. from Miami University and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. | ||
Keith J. Gardner | Co-Head | 2006 | 2015 |
Biography | Keith J. Gardner is currently Co-Head of Emerging Markets Debt as of April 2014 and has been employed by Western Asset Management since 1994. Prior to that time, he served as a portfolio manager for Legg Mason, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. for a combined total of eight years. He received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. | ||
Stephen A. Walsh | CIO (Chief Investment Officer) | 2006 | 2014 |
Biography | 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 |
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