What are the highlights of the past 12 months?
Over the last year, I’ve led our research efforts to identify best-in-class investment strategies across the emerging market debt spectrum. We now have Preferred managers in emerging market hard currency sovereigns, local currency sovereigns, corporates and blended debt. The research process involved more than 60 manager meetings, covering an extensive range of the sub-asset classes, and has enabled us to expand the emerging market debt offering available to our clients across various investment requirements. Meeting and interacting with dozens of portfolio managers with a widely diverse set of ethnic backgrounds and areas of expertise was not only a highlight of the last 12 months, but also a highlight of my career.