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Market: United States

Asset Class: Bond

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Total Assets: 506.28M

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ITAAX Overview

On this page you'll find an in-depth profile of Transamerica Short-term Bond Fund Class A. Learn about the key management, total assets, investment strategy and contact information of ITAAX among other information.

Contact Information

Address 1801 California Street, Suite 5200
Denver,CO 80202
United States

Phone +1 8882334339

Web www.transamericafunds.com

Top Executives

Name	Title	Since	Until
Sivakumar Naga Rajan	Portfolio Manager	2022	Now
Biography	Siva Rajan is a senior portfolio manager responsible for the portfolio management of Investment Grade Credit strategies and multi-sector strategies. Siva is also responsible for implementing consistent investment themes and rate calls across multi-sector mandates. Prior to his current role, Siva held various roles in the portfolio management and quantitative solutions teams. Before to joining the firm, Siva was a credit analyst at HSBC, and prior to that he was an engineering associate. He has been in the industry since 2004 and started with the firm in 2007. Siva received his BE in electronics engineering from Madras University, India, and his MS in electrical engineering and MA in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Tyler A. Knight	Head of Structured Finance/PM	2017	Now
Biography	Tyler Knight, CFA, is head of US public structured finance responsible for the overall strategy and portfolio management of structured finance-related strategies as well as leading a team of US structured finance investment managers. He is also a portfolio manager for multi-sector strategies. Prior to his current role, he structured CMBS transactions and supported CMBS trading on the Bear Stearns trading desk. Tyler also supported transaction closing deal teams in the Structured Finance Advisory Services group at Ernst & Young LLP. He has been in the industry since 2004 and started with the firm in 2008. Tyler received his BBA in finance from the University of Iowa. He is a CFA® charterholder.
Norbert King	portfolio manager	2017	Now
Biography	Norbert King is a senior portfolio manager responsible for the portfolio management of Investment Grade Credit strategies, Long Credit strategy, Intermediate Credit strategy, multi-sector portfolios as well as LDI and CDI mandates. Prior to his current role, Norbert was an investment grade credit trader responsible for trading across all investment grade credit and multi-sector mandates. He has been in the industry since and started with the firm and its affiliates in 2011. Norbert received his BA in accounting from the University of Lynchburg and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Villanova University.
Brian W. Westhoff	Portfolio Manager	2016	Now
Biography	Brian Westhoff, CFA, is the head of core US fixed income for portfolio management of multi-sector Emerging Market Debt strategies as well as LDI and CDI mandates. He is also responsible for the oversight of the US client investment solutions and insurance teams. Prior to his current role, he worked as a fixed income investment analyst at St. Paul Companies. He also held roles in equity research with Credit Suisse Asset Management in London and Merrill Lynch in Argentina. Brian has been in the industry since 1997 and started with the firm and its affiliates in 2003.
Doug Weih	Head of US Fixed Income/PM	2011	2022
Biography	Doug Weih, CFA, is global co-head of core fixed income and a portfolio manager responsible for a broad range of multi-sector strategies and the oversight of the US client investment solutions and insurance team. He is a member of the Aegon Asset Management Steering Committee that sets global macro and asset allocation strategies (global macro views) and has responsibility for implementation of those views in the US.
Glen Kneeland	Portfolio Manager	2014	2021
Biography	Portfolio Manager with Aegon USA Investment Management, LLC since 2006
Matthew Q. Buchanan	Senior Corporate Bond Manager	2012	2017
Biography	Senior Corporate Bond Manager with AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC since 2012; Investment Grade Bond Trader with Logan Circle Partners, LP (2007-2012), Investment Grade Bond Trader and Analyst with Delaware Investments (2004-2007)
Garry Creed	Head, Portfolio Manager	2011	2014
Biography	Garry Creed, CFA, CPA joined AEGON in 1988. Garry is the Head of Credit & Sovereign Research and a Portfolio Manager. Garry is responsible for global oversight of public investment grade, public high yield, leveraged loan, emerging market, sovereign and distressed credit research, and is also a co-manager of the Transamerica Short-Term Bond Fund and is involved in the management of other mutual funds, sub-advised funds, and institutional accounts in other fixed income disciplines. Prior to assuming his current role, Garry headed up AEGON’s Special Situations Group (a predecessor to the current distressed team). During his career he also covered numerous industries for both investment grade and high yield in an analyst capacity. Prior to joining the investment team, Garry served in various accounting and administrative management capacities for AEGON. Garry also serves in a volunteer capacity on the board that oversees the management of Wartburg College’s endowment. Garry received his BA from Wartburg College and his MBA from the University of Iowa.
Gregory D. Haendel	Portfolio Manager / Investment Committee	2005	2012
Biography	Mr. Greg Haendel joined Bradford & Marzec, now part of Tortoise, in 2014. He serves as a director and senior portfolio manager – investment grade credit and is a member of the Investment Policy & Strategy Committee. Mr. Haendel has more than 20 years of investment industry experience across corporate credit and securitized products. Prior to joining Bradford & Marzec, he spent the majority of his career at AEGON USA Investment Management and Transamerica Investment Management (an AEGON subsidiary), where he managed a broad range of institutional assets, including insurance, mutual fund, Taft-Hartley, pension, foundation and corporate assets. While at AEGON, he managed more than $6 billion in investment grade and multi-sector fixed income assets, including core, core plus, government/corporate, short duration and government strategies, as either the lead portfolio manager or co-portfolio manager. Mr. Haendel served at Transamerica as both a portfolio manager and a corporate credit analyst during his tenure. He was also a managing director and generalist portfolio manager at First Western Capital Management, where he managed several multi-sector separate accounts as well as launched and managed a short duration bond fund. Mr. Haendel also worked at Merrill Lynch in the corporate and institutional client group in New York City as a junior trader, specializing primarily in money market securities. Early in his career, he worked for CoBank, a Federal Farm Credit Bank, as an assistant portfolio manager, helping to manage the bank's securitized investment portfolio. Mr. Haendel earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Amherst College and a Master of Business Administration with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a CFA® charterholder and is currently a member of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts.
Derek S. Brown	Portfolio Manager	2007	2011
Biography	Derek Brown is a member of the Tactical Fixed Income team and is a senior portfolio manager for the Tactical Fixed Income and Absolute Bond Yield strategies. Mr. Brown has 11 years of industry experience and has been with the firm since 2010. Prior experiences include Associate Trader and Proprietary Trader positions at major Canadian financial and investment management firms. Mr. Brown graduated from Concordia University with B.C. majoring in Finance and later received a MBA in Finance from McGill University. He also received the CFA designation.

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