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Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Brian Gelfand | Specialist Portfolio Manager | 2023 | 2024 |
Biography | Mr. Gelfand is a Specialist Portfolio Manager, Co-Head of Global Credit, and Head of Credit Trading in TCW’s Fixed Income group. Previously, Mr. Gelfand traded high yield securities and was a portfolio manager for several of TCW’s high yield bond funds. He joined TCW in 2014 as a Research Analyst responsible for research across the telecom, technology, and media sectors. He began his career as a Client Management/Business Development Associate with Canyon Capital Advisors where he helped manage the firm’s institutional and high net worth client relationships. Mr. Gelfand holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. | ||
Ken Toshima | - | 2022 | 2024 |
Biography | Mr. Toshima is a Senior Portfolio Manager with a focus on credit research in the Fixed Income group. Mr. Toshima joined TCW in 2010 from Dimaio Ahmad Capital where he evaluated bond, leverage loan, and equity investment opportunities in the telecom, cable, and satellite industries. Prior to Dimaio Ahmad, Mr. Toshima managed the distressed debt allocation within a fund-of-funds strategy at Northwater Capital. Before that, he worked in the investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Toshima earned a BA in Asian Studies at Occidental College, an MA in Asian Studies from Yale University, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. While pursuing his BA, he spent a year in Tokyo studying at Waseda University. | ||
Steven J. Purdy | Portfolio Manager | 2021 | 2024 |
Biography | Mr. Purdy is a Specialist Portfolio Manager and Head of Credit Research. He oversees the firm’s proprietary credit research process within the corporate investment grade, high yield and leveraged loan markets. Prior to joining TCW in 2016, Mr. Purdy was a Managing Director at TPG Capital where he sourced and executed opportunistic credit investments. Previously he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he held leadership roles in various credit businesses. Mr. Purdy holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard University. | ||
Drew Sweeney | - | 2020 | 2024 |
Biography | Mr. Sweeney is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Trader for TCW CLO products as well as the MetWest Floating Rate Income Fund, and also serves as a member of the investment committee in the Fixed Income group. Mr. Sweeney was previously a Portfolio Manager at Bradford & Marzec, LLC and Macquarie Group (FKA Four Corners Capital Management) for separately managed accounts, closed-end funds, and CLO accounts. Prior to Four Corners, he worked as a Research Analyst evaluating leveraged loan and bond investments for Columbia Management (Ameriprise Financial, Inc.) and ING Capital Advisors. Mr. Sweeney has also worked in investment banking at Wells Fargo Securities (First Union) where he focused on underwriting, structuring, and syndicating leveraged loan transactions within the sponsor origination and consumer product groups. He holds a BS from Rutgers University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. | ||
Jerry M. Cudzil | Portfolio Manager | 2013 | 2024 |
Biography | Mr. Cudzil is a Specialist Portfolio Manager and Head of Credit Trading. He oversees the Fixed Income group’s trading of investment grade corporate bonds, high yield bonds, leveraged loans and credit derivatives. Prior to joining TCW in 2012, Mr. Cudzil was a High Yield Bond Trader for Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, specializing in project finance, aviation, and energy securities. He was previously a Portfolio Manager for Dimaio Ahmad Capital, managing the multi-strategy credit fund and aviation fund and leading the firm’s risk management team. Mr. Cudzil began his career as a Corporate Bond Trader for Prudential Securities and has also traded investment grade and high yield debt for Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Cudzil earned a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. | ||
Laird R. Landmann | Group Managing Director | 2013 | 2023 |
Biography | Mr. Landmann is a Generalist Portfolio Manager in TCW’s Fixed Income Group, a team that oversees over $180 billion in fixed income assets including the over $60 billion MetWest Total Return Bond Fund, one of the largest actively managed bond funds in the world. He serves on the boards of the TCW and Metropolitan West Mutual Funds.Mr. Landmann currently co-manages many of TCW and MetWest’s mutual funds, including the MetWest Total Return Bond Fund, the MetWest High Yield Bond Fund and the TCW Core Fixed Income Fund, and leads the fixed income group’s risk management efforts. He is a leader of the MetWest investment team that was recognized as Morningstar’s Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2005 and has been nominated for the award nine times. Prior to founding MetWest in 1996, Mr. Landmann was a principal and the co-director of fixed income at Hotchkis and Wiley. He also served as a portfolio manager and vice president at PIMCO.Mr. Landmann holds an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. | ||
Stephen M. Kane | Managing Director | 2013 | 2020 |
Biography | Mr. Kane is Co-Chief Investment Officer and a Generalist Portfolio Manager in TCW’s Fixed Income Group, a team that oversees over $180 billion in fixed income assets including the over $60 billion MetWest Total Return Bond Fund, one of the largest actively managed bond funds in the world. Under his co-leadership, the MetWest investment team was recognized as Morningstar’s Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2005. Mr. Kane has led the effort to launch a number of fixed income products, including AlphaTrak, Long Duration/LDI, Unconstrained, and Global. Prior to establishing MetWest, he was a fixed income portfolio manager at Hotchkis and Wiley. He also served as a Vice President at PIMCO. Mr. Kane earned a BS in Business from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a CFA charterholder. | ||
Jamie S. Farnham | Managing Director | 2013 | 2018 |
Biography | Jamie Farnham, Senior Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Research of Arena Capital Advisors, LLC. Mr. Farnham has over 25 years of industry experience, with 13 years in leveraged finance portfolio management including high yield, leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Farnham was Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Director of Credit Research at TCW Group where he co-led the credit investment team, helping grow the firm’s credit assets under management to over $50 billion during his tenure. He joined TCW Group following its acquisition of predecessor firm Metropolitan West Asset Management in 2009. Prior to this, Mr. Farnham was a private equity investor at Primus Capital Group and an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Farnham earned a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management. |
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