Bond Fund 

Howard is co-head of the firm’s U.S. core and core-plus fixed-income team and serves as a co-lead portfolio manager for the core and core-plus fixed-income strategies. Prior to joining the company, he spent more than 14 years at Sun Life Financial Services of Canada as a senior vice president for Sun Capital Advisers, managing investment-grade and high-yield fixed-income portfolios. Earlier in his career, he worked at Baring Asset Management as a fixed-income analyst. Howard holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of CFA Society Boston.

• Education: B.B.A., Business Administration, University of Massachusetts; M.B.A., Northeastern University
• Joined the company: 2002
• Began career: 1983

Pranay is a portfolio manager on the firm’s U.S. Core and Core Plus Fixed Income team. Previously, he was a credit research analyst and sector lead responsible for research coverage of the industrials, utilities, and energy sectors. Prior to that, he was a lead credit analyst with Standard & Poor's on various chemical and environmental services issuers and, before that, he worked for Barclays Capital as a sell-side credit analyst assisting coverage in multiple sectors.

Education: B.A., Economics and Mathematical Science, Colby College; M.B.A., Cornell University–Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Joined the company: 2014

Began career: 2007