Bond Fund 

Howard is co-head of the U.S. core and core plus fixed-income team and serves as a lead portfolio manager for the core plus fixed income strategy and the core fixed income strategy. 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, Howard worked at Baring Asset Management as a fixed-income analyst. Howard earned a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, an M.B.A. from Northeastern University, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and is a member of CFA Society Boston. 

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