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The investment seeks a high level of current income by investing in high-yield debt securities. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings, if any, for investment purposes) in high-yield bonds. It normally invests primarily in U.S. securities. Junk bonds are high-risk debt securities rated below investment grade.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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James K. Schaeffer | - | 2011 | Now |
Biography | Jim Schaeffer is global head of leveraged finance and serves as a portfolio manager for the various leveraged finance strategies. He is also responsible for stressed and special situation securities, and all restructuring and bankruptcy situations for the firm. In addition, he is a member of the Aegon Asset Management Steering Committee that sets global macro and asset allocation strategies (global macro views) and has responsibility for implementation of those views in the US. Prior to his current role, Jim served as a vice president at PPM America’s Distressed Debt and Workout group. | ||
Kevin Bakker | Portfolio Manager | 2007 | Now |
Biography | Kevin Bakker, CFA, is co-head of US high yield and a senior portfolio manager responsible for US and global high yield portfolio management. Prior to his current role, he was a public fixed income research analyst covering high yield and investment grade corporate securities. Prior to joining the firm, Kevin was employed by Archer Daniels Midland in various roles within their commodities trading division. He has been in the industry since and started with the firm in 2003. Kevin received his BA from Loras College and his MBA from the University of Iowa. He is a CFA® charterholder. | ||
Benjamin D. Miller | Portfolio Manager | 2006 | Now |
Biography | Ben Miller, CFA, is co-head of US high yield and a senior portfolio manager responsible for US and global high yield portfolio management. Prior to his current role, Ben held various investment responsibilities ranging from private placement analyst to public fixed income research analyst. He has been in the industry since and started with the firm and its affiliates in 1993. Ben received his BA from the University of Northern Iowa and his MBA from the University of Iowa. He is a CFA® charterholder. | ||
Derek Thoms | Portfolio Manager | 2016 | 2021 |
Biography | Derek Thoms is a portfolio manager responsible for US and global high yield trading and portfolio management. Prior to his current role, Derek held a number of management and leadership positions with ESP International and the University of Northern Iowa and traded commodities for Archer Daniels Midland Company. He has 11 years of industry experience and has been with the firm since 2013. Derek received his BA in economics from the University of Northern Iowa. | ||
Bradley J. Beman | CEO | 1998 | 2015 |
Biography | Mr. Beman co-founded the Tortoise Credit Strategies, LLC , an investment firm focused on fixed income-related credit, in 2015. He serves as the Adviser’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer, and as a member of the IPSC. Mr. Beman has nearly three decades of fixed income investment experience, including a 28-year career at AEGON USA Investment Management LLC. He held several key positions at AEGON, most recently serving as the firm’s global chief investment officer/director of high yield. He also was a member of a global asset management board and led a team of approximately 100 investment professionals overseeing more than $200 billion invested in domestic and global taxable fixed income, asset allocation, alternatives and derivatives, with a specific focus in the U.S. and European regions. Mr. Beman was also involved in the build-out and growth of a third-party retail and institutional taxable fixed income and asset allocation business. His prior positions with AEGON included director of public fixed income and director of public credit research. A recognized expert in high yield fixed-income and leveraged finance strategies, Mr. Beman has spoken for The Financial Investigator Seminar and The Money Management Institute. He was part of a select group of high yield managers asked to participate in Morgan Stanley’s biannual leveraged finance roundtable. Mr. Beman earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from the University of Northern Iowa. He passed the Certified Public Accountant exam and is a CFA charterholder. | ||
David R. Halfpap | Co-Head | 1985 | 2010 |
Biography | David R. Halfpap, CFA joined AEGON in 1975. Dave is Portfolio Manager with Aegon USA Investment Management, LLC since 1979; Senior Vice President (1995 – present); Head of Investment Strategy and Co-Head of Global Strategy since 2011. Dave is a member of the Asset Management Group, and the Pension Investment Committee, with asset management experience spanning equities, high yield bonds, and investment grade corporate bonds. Dave is a member of the CFA Institute, and a former Director of the Iowa Society of the Institute. David earned a BS in Accounting from Iowa State University. | ||
Craig M. Enright | Portfolio Manager | 1998 | 2002 |
Biography | Enright joined AEGON USA Investment Management as a portfolio manager in 1996. His prior work experience includes 10 years as an interest rate and commodities options and futures trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, two years in equity and fixed income sales for the Securities Corporation of Iowa and five years at the Northern Trust Company bank in Chicago. | ||
Kevin Kubik | - | 1985 | 1989 |
Biography | Kubik is a portfolio manager of the fund. |
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