Anders Persson

Chief Investment Officer, Head of Global Fixed Income at Nuveen

Speaker

Anders is the fixed income chief investment officer and a member of the Nuveen Senior Leadership Team. He oversees all public and private global fixed income activities, including portfolio management, research, trading and investment risk management activities. Anders is also member of the Global Investment Committee and chairs the Global Fixed Income Investment Council.

Prior to his current role, he was head of global fixed income portfolio management and head of research. Before joining the firm, he was a founding member of the team that established Société Générale’s European high yield effort in London, and later worked to establish the high-yield research effort within Schroders Investment Management. He has also worked as a sell-side high-yield research analyst at Wells Fargo (formerly First Union).

Anders graduated with a B.S. from Lander College and an M.B.A. from Winthrop University. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the North Carolina Society of Security Analysts. Anders serves on the Board of the North Carolina Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.