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Mr. Jeffrey J.
Grills, CFA, is a Head of US Cross Markets & Emerging Markets Debt at Aegon USA Investment Management LLC.
He is responsible for the oversight of the fixed income teams for emerging markets debt, US centralized trading and quantitative solutions.
As head of the emerging markets debt team, he is responsible for portfolio management and the emerging markets debt research team.
Prior to his current role, he was a partner at Gramercy Funds Management and a senior portfolio manager for emerging markets strategies.
He was also a senior member of the Credit Investment Committee responsible for overseeing investments in all credit-related strategies.
Before that role, he was a portfolio manager and co-head of the emerging market debt team at JPMorgan Asset Management.
He was also a member of the JP Morgan fixed income macro team responsible for broad market relative value and asset allocation of core portfolios.
Mr. Grills received his BS in mathematics and economics from Duke University.
He is a CFA charterholder.
Jeffrey Joseph Grills active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Aegon USA Investment Management LLC
Aegon USA Investment Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Aegon AM US provides active management of portfolios that invest primarily in fixed income assets classes, but also may utilize equities, loans, and derivatives. The investment process for most of the firm's fundamental fixed income investment strategies combines top-down macroeconomic outlooks with bottom-up credit research in a procedure overlaid with risk monitoring and risk management. This disciplined process emphasizes consistent research and analysis of fundamentals, sentiment and positioning, technical, and valuation. | Head-Fixed Income Invts | 2019-11-03 |
Former positions of Jeffrey Joseph Grills
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Gramercy Funds Management LLC
Gramercy Funds Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Gramercy seeks to provide investors with superior risk-adjusted returns through investments in distressed opportunities in emerging markets. Over the years, the firm has expanded their investment capabilities, and now manages assets across a range of alternative and long-only emerging markets investments. Strategies employed by Gramercy include capital solutions, private credit, distressed debt, equity, private equity, special situations, USD debt, local currency debt and high yield/corporate debt investments. The firm’s investment process includes top-down analytics which identify value and bottom-up research that drive credit selection. | Investment Committee Member | 2019-09-30 |
JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc.
JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance JPMIM seeks to generate positive excess return through both a bottom-up approach emphasizing security selection and a top-down approach focusing on macro investment themes and trends to aid in determining sector weightings, currency, and yield curve weighting where appropriate. The firm offers a broad range of US, non-US and global investment management products and provides different strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes including equity, fixed-income, cash liquidity, currency, real estate, hedge funds and private equity. | Portfolio Manager-Fixed Income | 2009-07-31 |
Gramercy Advisors LLC
Gramercy Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance Gramercy Advisors is an event-driven investor that specializes in distressed emerging and global market investment management. The firm employs an event driven, value-oriented strategy. They seek to invest in securities that are distressed or that could benefit from restructuring and that are selling below their intrinsic value. Their strategies include emerging markets distressed securities, emerging markets private equity and distressed global and emerging market equities | Investment Committee Member | - |
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides legal services | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
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JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc.
JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance JPMIM seeks to generate positive excess return through both a bottom-up approach emphasizing security selection and a top-down approach focusing on macro investment themes and trends to aid in determining sector weightings, currency, and yield curve weighting where appropriate. The firm offers a broad range of US, non-US and global investment management products and provides different strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes including equity, fixed-income, cash liquidity, currency, real estate, hedge funds and private equity. | Finance |
Duke University
Duke University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Gramercy Advisors LLC
Gramercy Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance Gramercy Advisors is an event-driven investor that specializes in distressed emerging and global market investment management. The firm employs an event driven, value-oriented strategy. They seek to invest in securities that are distressed or that could benefit from restructuring and that are selling below their intrinsic value. Their strategies include emerging markets distressed securities, emerging markets private equity and distressed global and emerging market equities | Finance |
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides legal services | Commercial Services |
Aegon USA Investment Management LLC
Aegon USA Investment Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Aegon AM US provides active management of portfolios that invest primarily in fixed income assets classes, but also may utilize equities, loans, and derivatives. The investment process for most of the firm's fundamental fixed income investment strategies combines top-down macroeconomic outlooks with bottom-up credit research in a procedure overlaid with risk monitoring and risk management. This disciplined process emphasizes consistent research and analysis of fundamentals, sentiment and positioning, technical, and valuation. | Finance |
Gramercy Funds Management LLC
Gramercy Funds Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Gramercy seeks to provide investors with superior risk-adjusted returns through investments in distressed opportunities in emerging markets. Over the years, the firm has expanded their investment capabilities, and now manages assets across a range of alternative and long-only emerging markets investments. Strategies employed by Gramercy include capital solutions, private credit, distressed debt, equity, private equity, special situations, USD debt, local currency debt and high yield/corporate debt investments. The firm’s investment process includes top-down analytics which identify value and bottom-up research that drive credit selection. | Finance |
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