Global Shareholder Yield Fund 

Bill is the founder, CEO, and co-CIO of Epoch Investment Partners, also serving as a portfolio manager. Before the firm's founding in 2004, he was a co-managing partner and portfolio manager at Steinberg Priest & Sloane Capital Management. Prior to that, he was a member of the global executive committee of Credit Suisse Asset Management, chairman and CEO of Credit Suisse Asset Management Americas, and CEO and portfolio manager of its predecessor firm, BEA Associates. Bill earned a B.A. from Duke University, an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Graduate School of Business, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.                         

John is a director, portfolio manager, and senior research analyst with Epoch Investment Partners, where his primary focus is Epoch’s U.S. and global equity shareholder yield strategies. Prior to joining Epoch in 2012, John taught undergraduate economics at Fordham University. He also spent four years at HSBC Global Asset Management as a senior research analyst, and almost 20 years at Credit Suisse Asset Management, where he was a senior research analyst. He began his career in 1981 with Bankers Trust Company. John earned B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Fordham University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.