MoneyAM Fund Centre

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Fund Objective

The fund aims to invest mainly in bonds that are issued by companies in both developed and emerging economies, and also invests into government bonds and the shares of different companies. There is no restriction on the credit rating of the bonds that the fund may hold.

Fund Managers

Gary Kirk

Founding partner with 32 years' of credit market experience;previously Head of Proprietary Credit Trading at Wachovia

Polina Kurdyavko

Polina is Head of Emerging Markets and Senior Portfolio Manager at BlueBay. Polina started her career in emerging markets after the Russian financial crisis in 1998 and has, since then, gained expertise across a broad range of emerging market financial assets. Polina joined BlueBay in July 2005 from UBS where she was a credit analyst in EM corporate research. Her role encompassed coverage of EM issuers as well as research support for primary issuance of corporate debt. Prior to this, Polina was with Alliance Capital where she was an emerging markets equity analyst and then moved on to pioneer emerging markets quantitative research at the firm. She started her career in a macro research boutique in Russia. Polina holds an MSc (Hons) in Finance from the People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow and is a CFA charterholder.

Mike Hodgson

Mike Hodgson is Head of Risk Managed Investments & Structuring at Schroders and has over 25 years of experience in financial markets. At Royal Bank of Scotland (formerly of ABN AMRO) he was Global Head of Equity Derivatives Structuring and Head of Fund Derivatives Trading and Structuring.

Jim Wiant

Jim Wiant has over 15 years of experience in corporate debt investing and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to joining MidOcean, Jim was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Deerfield Capital Management, where he worked with Michael Apfel building and managing Deerfield’s alternative credit investment portfolio and direct lending business. Prior to Deerfield, Jim was a Vice President at Golub Capital, responsible for originating and underwriting debt investments. He also worked for Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and Salomon Smith Barney. He graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown School of Business and received an MBA with honours from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.