Antulio Bomfim
Portfolio Manager
Biography
About Antulio
Antulio Bomfim, head of global macro for the global fixed income team, oversees interest rate strategy, systematic volatility, liquidity and monitoring of systemic risk globally. He is also responsible for the firm’s global liquidity management business.
He is a member of the Fixed Income Strategy Committee, a group that formulates the macroeconomic and investment themes that inform strategy, risk budgeting and portfolio construction across all fixed income portfolios.
With more than 30 years of experience in central banking and asset management, Antulio is a longtime advisor, consultant and award-winning author. He has deep knowledge of theoretical and practical aspects of the interactions between the economy and the financial markets.
Previously, he held senior roles at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including as special adviser to Chair Jerome Powell and special adviser to the Board. Antulio also was senior managing director and co-head of monetary policy insights at consulting firm Macroeconomic Advisers. He was portfolio manager and co-head of interest strategy at OFI Institutional Asset Management, a division of Oppenheimer Funds.
Antulio earned a doctorate, along with master’s and bachelor’s degrees, in economics from the University of Maryland, as well as an master’s degree in mathematical finance from the University of Oxford. His research includes asset pricing, monetary policy, macroeconomics, investments and financial markets. He also teaches financial economics courses at Georgetown University.
Funds Managed
Core Bond Fund
The Fund seeks to maximize total return with reasonable risk by investing in a broad range of investment-grade U.S. fixed income securities.
Fixed Income Fund
The Fund seeks to maximize total return from capital appreciation and income by investing in investment-grade securities, while monitoring and controlling portfolio risk.
Short Bond Fund
The Fund seeks to maximize total return consistent with minimal reasonable risk by investing in a broad range of investment grade fixed income securities with shorter-term maturities.
U.S. Government Money Market Fund
The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing, under normal circumstances, substantially all (and at least 99.5%) of its total assets in cash and securities issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. government.
U.S. Government Select Money Market Fund
The Fund seeks to generate current income with relatively low risk of loss by investing in high-quality US government and agency securities.
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