Fund Inception | 02/19/2002 |
Name of Issuer | American Funds |
Fund Advisor(s) | Capital Research and Management Company |
Sub-Advisor(s) | -- |
Fund Managers for CIRAX
James Lovelace
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/1992
James B. Lovelace is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 42 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, Jim covered beverages & tobacco, restaurants & lodging, household products and personal care companies. Jim began his career at Capital as a participant in The Associates Program, a two-year series of work assignments in various areas of the organization. He holds a bachelor's degree with honors in philosophy from Swarthmore College.
David Hoag
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2004
David A. Hoag is a fixed income portfolio manager at Capital Group. He also serves on the Fixed Income Management Committee and the Target Date Solutions Committee. He has 36 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 32 years. Earlier in his career, as a fixed income investment analyst at Capital, he covered municipal bonds. He holds an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor's degree in economics and business from Wheaton College, Illinois. David is based in Los Angeles.
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Steven Watson
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2007
Steven T. Watson is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He also serves on the Global Solutions Committee. He has 36 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 34 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered Asian property and transportation, as well as European transportation and utilities companies. Before joining Capital, Steven was a buy-side research analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York.
Winnie Kwan
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2007
Winnie Kwan is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 27 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 24 years. Earlier in her career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, she covered global exchanges, Asian utilities and small-cap companies. Prior to joining Capital, Winnie worked with Morgan Stanley in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. She holds both master's and bachelor's degrees in economics from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Winnie is based in Hong Kong.
Alfonso Barroso
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2010
Alfonso Barroso is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 29 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, Alfonso covered retail companies in Europe and Latin America, European real estate and REITs, and European internet and telecommunication services.
Grant Cambridge
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2013
Grant L. Cambridge is a portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 31 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 27 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered insurance, airlines, air freight, home builders, asset managers and software companies, as well as small- and mid-cap companies. Prior to joining Capital, he worked for BTM Capital, a subsidiary of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in Boston.
Philip Winston
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2014
Philip Winston is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 39 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 27 years. Earlier in his career, in addition to being a portfolio manager, Philip was an equity investment analyst at Capital covering UK property and paper & packaging companies, as well as European property and media companies. Before joining Capital, he was a director and UK equity fund manager at BZW Investment Management in London. Prior to that, he worked at Orion Royal Bank in London and New York.
Fergus MacDonald
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2015
Fergus N. MacDonald is a fixed income portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 31 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 20 years. Earlier in his career at Capital, he was a fixed income investment analyst covering mortgage-backed securities. Prior to joining Capital, he was a vice president at Goldman Sachs & Co. and an associate in the derivative products group at Morgan Stanley. Before that, Fergus was a consultant and actuary at Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow in London.
Aline Avzaradel
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2016
Aline Avzaradel is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 23 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 20 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, as an equity analyst, she covered U.S. insurance companies as well as the apparel industry, nonalcoholic beverages and packaged food companies. Prior to joining Capital, Aline was an investment banking analyst with Morgan Stanley in New York.
Caroline Randall
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2021
Caroline Randall is a portfolio manager at Capital Group. She also serves on the Capital Group Management Committee. She has 26 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 18 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, as an equity investment analyst, she covered European utilities and transportation companies. Prior to joining Capital, she was head of European utilities research at J.P. Morgan.
Charles Ellwein
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2023
Charles E. Ellwein is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 27 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 18 years. Earlier in his career at Capital, as an equity investment analyst, he covered U.S. commercial and professional services, Canada as a generalist, U.S. Exchanges and global telecom equipment. Prior to joining Capital, he was a managing member at Farallon Capital Management in San Francisco, responsible for investments in the technology and media sectors. He holds an MBA with honors from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree with honors in electrical engineering from Brown University. Charles is based in San Francisco.
William Robbins
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2024
William L. Robbins is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He also serves on the Portfolio Solutions Committee and the Target Date Solutions Committee. He has 31 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 29 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, Will covered small-capitalization companies, REITs and U.S. banks. Prior to joining Capital, he was a part of the investment team at Tiger Management Corp. in New York and a financial analyst with Morgan Stanley.
Saurav Jain
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2025
Saurav Jain is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 16 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career at Capital, as an equity investment analyst, he covered Indian consumer companies and was a small- and mid-cap generalist for India. He also covered European autos, retail and food companies and Singapore as a generalist. Prior to joining Capital, Saurav was a corporate strategy analyst with Kraft Foods Inc. in the United States and a consultant with The Monitor Group in India. He holds an MBA from the London Business School and a bachelor's degree in economics from Delhi University, graduating with honors. Saurav is based in Singapore.
Brian Wong
Portfolio Manager since 01/01/2025
Brian Wong is a fixed income investment analyst at Capital Group with research responsibility for auto rentals, telecommunications, cruise lines, cable and satellite companies. He has 16 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for nine years. Prior to joining Capital, Brian was an international research analyst in equities at Fidelity Management & Research in Hong Kong. Before that, he was a private equity associate at TPG Capital and an investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania graduating summa cum laude. Brian is based in Los Angeles.