Speakers
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Arvind Rajan Managing Director & Head of Global and Macro Arvind Rajan, PhD, is a Managing Director and Head of Global and Macro at PGIM Fixed Income, heading the FX, Global Bond, Emerging Markets Debt, Investment Strategy and Economic Research teams. In 2015, Mr. Rajan served as Adjunct Full Professor at the NYU Stern School of Management. Previously, he was Head of PGIM Fixed Income’s Quantitative Research and Risk Management Group. Prior to joining the Firm in 2008, Mr. Rajan worked at Citigroup, where he had been Co-Head of U.S. Fixed Income Strategy. Mr. Rajan co-authored The Structured Credit Handbook, published in 2007. In 2006, he founded a unit that traded emerging markets and credit instruments as part of Citigroup’s global multi-strategy proprietary trading group. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Global Head of Structured Credit Research. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Rajan was the Global Head of Emerging Markets Quantitative Research and Strategy for the Fixed Income Division at Salomon Smith Barney. He joined the Bond Portfolio Analysis group at Salomon Brothers in 1994, after working at AT&T Bell Labs and teaching at Rice University. Mr. Rajan received a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology as well as an MS and PhD in Operations Research from Northwestern University. -
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Sarah McMullen Head of EMEA Client Advisory Sarah McMullen, CFA, is Principal and Head of EMEA Client Advisory for PGIM Fixed Income, based in London. Ms. McMullen is responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership to the institutional sales, consultant relations, marketing and client management teams. Prior to assuming her current position, she was Head of UK Client Advisory Team where she was responsible for developing and marketing PGIM Fixed Income’s capabilities to institutional assets owners in the UK and European Consultants. Earlier Ms. McMullen had led the European account management team and initially joined the firm as a Product Manager in the European Alternative Investment team. Prior to joining PGIM Fixed Income in 2008, Ms. McMullen structured credit derivatives at Citi. Ms. McMullen received a BSc with Honors in Physiology from The University of Edinburgh. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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Paul Brain Investment Leader, Fixed Income Team
Paul is Investment Leader of the fixed income team. He joined Newton in 2004, and manages a range of global bond portfolios. He is also part of the leadership team for the Newton Global Dynamic Bond strategy. Paul is chairman of the bond/FX strategy group, and a member of the global strategy group and the investment committee.
Paul has held a number of senior fixed-income positions within the industry at MSG & Partners, Investec and Credit Suisse. Outside of work, Paul enjoys cycling, learning foreign languages and travel.
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Deepti Bhandoola Deepti is responsible for developing and implementing NN’s marketing and distribution strategy for the UK on both the Institutional and Wholesale segments. She has over 17 years of experience in asset management. Having started her career as a credit analyst and spent 8 years on the investment side she then moved to business development. Deepti has a master’s degree in Finance & Control from Delhi University, India and an MBA in International Business from Thunderbird Global School of Management, USA. -
Matt Pumo Head of Institutional
Matt joined Sarasin & Partners in August 2020, with over 20 years experience.
Prior to joining Sarasin & Partners, Matt worked at Newton Investment Management where he was Head of UK Institutional Business Development. Previously Matt has worked at Neuberger Berman, Gartmore Investment Management and Liontrust Asset Management – all focusing on institutional business development.
Matt graduated from Boston College in the United States with a Bachelor of Arts (major in political science) and holds the Securities Institute Investment Administration Qualification (IAQ).
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Leroy Tujeehut Head of Diversified Income Leroy joined NN Investment Partners in 2018 and is Head of the Diversified Income team where he is responsible for the management of various diversified income strategies. His team is part of the multi-asset team within NN Investment Partners which allows them to benefit from the direct involvement of specialised portfolio managers within each underlying asset class as well as wider top-down views generated by the broader team. Prior to joining NN Leroy was Head of Fixed Income Credits and Senior Portfolio Manager at Delta Lloyd Asset Management. He has 17 years of experience within the investment industry with majority of his career focused on Fixed Income. Leroy is a CFA Charter holder (2008) and holds a number of degrees including a Global Executive MBA from IESE Business School (2016), an MSc in Econometrics with a focus in Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative finance (2005), an MSc Economics: Corporate Finance (2002) ,and a BSc in Econometrics and Operational Research (2004) all from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
