Close

Advisor Information for ABLSX

Fund Inception05/31/2005
Name of IssuerAmerican Beacon
Fund Advisor(s)American Beacon Advisors Inc
Sub-Advisor(s)Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC
Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Mgmt LLC

Fund Managers for ABLSX

George Davis
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/1989
George Davis serves as Executive Chairman and portfolio manager on the Large Cap Fundamental Value and Large Cap Disciplined Value portfolios. He is a member of the capital goods and financials sector teams. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Davis was an assistant to the senior partner of RCM Capital Management. He began his career in equity research with internships at Cramer, Rosenthal & McGlynn and Fidelity Management & Research. Mr. Davis received his BA in Economics and History and MBA from Stanford University.
Patricia McKenna
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/1995
Patty McKenna serves as a portfolio manager on the Large Cap Fundamental Value and Large Cap Disciplined Value portfolios. She covers consumer companies and is a member of the consumer and healthcare sector teams. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. McKenna was an equity analyst at Trust Company of the West. Before entering the field of investment management, she worked for five years in corporate finance at Bankers Trust and then at Fieldstone Private Capital Group. Ms. McKenna began her career as a forensic accountant in 1983. Ms. McKenna, a CFA® charterholder, received her BA in Economics from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard Business School.
J. Scott McDonald
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/1998
Mr. McDonald joined BHMS in 1995. He was appointed Co-Head of Fixed Income, along with Mark Luchsinger, in 2017. Mr. McDonald also serves as the lead portfolio manager for our Long Duration strategies, specializing in corporate and government bonds. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Dallas-Fort Worth. During his 30-year investment career, Mr. McDonald previously served as senior vice president and portfolio manager at Life Partners Group, Inc. Prior to that, he was a credit supervisor and lending officer for Chase Bank of Texas. Mr. McDonald received an MBA from the University of Texas and a BBA from Southern Methodist University.
Deborah Petruzzelli
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/2003
Ms. Petruzzelli joined BHMS in 2003. She serves as our structured securities portfolio manager for mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and commercial mortgage-backed securities. She is also an analyst for structured securities. During her 34-year investment career, Ms. Petruzzelli has served as managing director/senior portfolio manager for Victory Capital Management, Inc., where she was responsible for the management of ABS, CMBS, and whole-loan sectors for all client portfolios. She also had an active role in that firm’s development of a core plus strategy, leveraging the firm’s convertible equity management strengths. Prior to joining Victory, Ms. Petruzzelli worked for McDonald & Company Securities, Inc., as senior vice president for ABS syndication and traded ABS, CMO, and MBS. She earned a BSBA in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University.
Scott McBride
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/2004
Scott McBride serves as CEO and portfolio manager on the Large Cap Fundamental Value, Large Cap Disciplined Value, Global Value and Focused Global Value portfolios. He covers technology companies and is a member of the consumer, technology, healthcare and financial sector teams. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. McBride was an associate consultant with Deloitte Consulting and worked as an investment marketing analyst with Fidelity Investments. Mr. McBride, a CFA® charterholder, received his BA in Economics from Georgetown University and MBA from Columbia University.
Erin Higginbotham
Portfolio Manager since 03/01/2011
Ms. Higginbotham has served as Portfolio Manager since February 2011. She has responsibility for credit and relative value analysis of corporate bonds. Ms. Higginbotham managed enhanced cash and money market portfolios at American Beacon Advisors and has been a Portfolio Manager since April 2003.
Samuel Silver
Portfolio Manager since 02/28/2014
Samuel Silver oversees the team responsible for the portfolio management of the American Beacon Short-Term Bond Fund and a portion of the fixed-income assets of the American Beacon Balanced Fund, American Beacon Retirement Income and Appreciation Fund, and American Beacon Intermediate Bond Fund. Mr. Silver has been with the Manager since September 1999 and has served as Vice President, Fixed Income Investments since October 2011. Prior to October 2011, Mr. Silver was a Senior Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income Investments. The team responsible for the day-to-day portfolio management of the American Beacon Balanced Fund, American Beacon Retirement Income and Appreciation Fund, American Beacon Intermediate Bond Fund and American Beacon Short-Term Bond Fund includes Patrick A. Sporl and Erin Higginbotham.
Mark Giambrone
Portfolio Manager since 02/27/2015
Mr. Giambrone joined Barrow Hanley in 1999. Prior to joining Barrow Hanley, Mr. Giambrone served as a portfolio consultant at HOLT Value Associates. During his career, he has also served as a senior auditor/tax specialist for KPMG Peat Marwick and Ernst & Young Kenneth Leventhal. Mr. Giambrone graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University with a BS in Business and received an MBA from the University of Chicago
Kirk Brown
Portfolio Manager since 02/28/2016
Kirk Brown serves as Senior Portfolio Manager, Asset Management for American Beacon Advisors, Inc. and is responsible for monitoring the investment advisors to several American Beacon Funds as well as investments in alternative products (including private equity). He is also responsible for monitoring the international, high yield bond, emerging markets and currency overlay investment advisors to AMR Corporation’s pension plans. Prior to joining American Beacon in 1994, Mr. Brown served in operational and business planning roles for American Airlines, Inc. Mr. Brown received his BA from the State University of New York at Brockport in 1986 and an MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management in 1988. He is a CFA charterholder.
Paul Cavazos
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/2016
Paul B Cavazos is Chief Investment Officer and joined American Beacon Advisors and has served on the portfolio management team since 2016. Prior to joining American Beacon Advisors, Mr. Cavazos was Chief Investment Officer and Assistant Treasurer of DTE Energy from 2007 to 2016.
Matthew Routh
Portfolio Manager since 10/31/2021
Mr. Routh joined BHMS in 2013. He is an analyst in credit research, focusing on investment grade credits in the non-corporate sector, including sovereigns, foreign agencies, and taxable municipals, such as Build America bonds. His responsibilities also include quantitative portfolio analysis using the BHMS relative return model, portfolio analytics, and risk management systems. Mr. Routh began his investment career in 2008 at Callan Associates, where he worked in fixed income research. He is a member of the CFA Institute. Mr. Routh earned a BA in Economics from the University of Texas and an MA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Justin Martin
Portfolio Manager since 10/31/2021
Mr. Martin joined Barrow Hanley in 2004 and has served as a credit analyst in fixed income since 2009. Prior to his work as a credit analyst, Mr. Martin’s work at the firm included market and index research and portfolio analysis. Mr. Martin earned a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University. He is a CFA charterholder.
Douglas Campbell
Portfolio Manager since 07/01/2024
Doug Campbell serves as a portfolio manager on the Large Cap Fundamental Value and Large Cap Disciplined Value portfolios. He covers enterprise IT, chemicals, and energy services companies. He is a member of the capital goods, technology and energy sector teams. Mr. Campbell began his career in equity research as an associate at Dodge & Cox. After a short period as an entrepreneur, Mr. Campbell continued his equity research career with internships at Causeway Capital Management and Capital Group. Mr. Campbell received his BS in mathematics and economics from Stanford University and MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.