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Advisor Information for ANNPX

Fund Inception04/19/1993
Name of IssuerVirtus
Fund Advisor(s)Virtus Investment Advisers, LLC
Sub-Advisor(s)Voya Investment Management Co. LLC

Fund Managers for ANNPX

Justin Kass
Portfolio Manager since 12/31/2003
Justin Kass is chief investment officer, co-head of income and growth at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business, where he was a portfolio manager, managing director, CIO and co-head of the U.S. income and growth strategies team with portfolio management, research and trading responsibilities for the income and strategies team. Prior to that at AllianzGI, Justin held portfolio manager responsibilities for the U.S. convertible strategy and was a lead portfolio manager for the income and growth strategy since its inception and was also responsible for managing multiple closed-end and open-end mutual funds. Justin earned a BS from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a CFA® Charterholder.
David Oberto
Portfolio Manager since 03/01/2022
Mr. Oberto, Portfolio Manager, joined Voya IM as part of Voya's acquisition of Allianz Global Investors U.S., where he was a portfolio manager and director with portfolio management, research, and trading responsibilities for the income and growth strategies team. At Allianz Global Investors U.S., he served as portfolio manager for the U.S. High Yield Bond strategy and was also responsible for managing multiple closed-end and open-end mutual funds. Prior to that, Mr. Oberto was a portfolio administrator, a credit default swaps account manager and a trade-closer at Bain Capital.
Michael Yee
Portfolio Manager since 03/01/2022
Michael Yee is a lead portfolio manager, income and growth at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business, where he was a portfolio manager and managing director with portfolio management, research and trading responsibilities for the income and growth strategies team. He served as a lead portfolio manager for the income and growth strategy since inception and was responsible for managing multiple closed-end and open-end mutual funds. Prior to that at AllianzGI, Michael was an analyst for the global and systematic team with responsibilities focused on U.S. large cap equity strategies and worked in global portfolio administration and client service. Previously, he was a financial consultant for Priority One Financial/Liberty Foundation. Michael earned a BS from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from San Diego State University.
Ethan Turner
Portfolio Manager since 01/27/2023
Ethan Turner is a portfolio manager, income and growth at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business, where he was an analyst and vice president with research responsibilities for the income and growth strategies team. Prior to that at AllianzGI, he was a trading assistant. Prior to that, Ethan was a lead analyst covering the financial sector at Relational Investors and a financial analyst at Sunstone Hotel Investors. Ethan earned a BS from San Diego State University and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a CFA® Charterholder
K. Mathew Axline
Portfolio Manager since 09/30/2025
Mr. Axline, Portfolio Manager, is on the income and growth team at Voya IM. Prior to joining Voya IM, he was a portfolio manager on the global small-cap team at Macquarie Investment Management. Prior to that, Mr. Axline was a portfolio manager at Allianz Global Investors U.S. for the global small-cap, global smid-cap, US small-cap, and US micro-cap portfolios. Prior that that, he was an associate with Pescadero Ventures, LLC, a business-development manager for Icarian, Inc., and a wealth-management advisor with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith.