Mansur Z. Rasul Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager Mansur Z. Rasul is a senior portfolio manager for the firm’s emerging markets credit strategy, a role he assumed in July 2016. He rejoined the firm in April 2012 as head of emerging markets trading. During his previous time at Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) from 2004 to 2007, he was an analyst on the firm’s fixed income team. From May 2011 to December 2011, Rasul worked with ING Financial Markets, where he was responsible for emerging markets credit trading and structuring. Prior to that, he worked for Daiwa Capital Markets America as director of the firm’s fixed income syndicate, responsible for the placement of all fixed income products to US-based accounts from 2009 to 2011. Previously, he worked with Merrill Lynch as an associate responsible for Asian credit trading from 2007 to 2009. Rasul received his bachelor’s degree in economics, with a minor in political science, from Northwestern University.

Sean M. Simmons is the trading specialist for the firm’s international bond group, where his responsibilities include non-dollar bonds and currencies. Prior to joining Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in October 2007, he was a proprietary derivatives trader for Wolverine Trading from 2001 to 2005, and also worked as an options strategist for Susquehanna International Group from 2006 to 2007. Simmons received a bachelor’s degree in financial economics from Rutgers University and a master’s in finance from London Business School. He is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Alex Kozhemiakin, CFA Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Debt Alex Kozhemiakin joined the firm in December 2018 as head of the Macquarie Investment Management Fixed Income Emerging Markets Debt team. He has overall responsibility for the team which manages the full spectrum of emerging markets debt solutions including sovereign, local currency, and corporate. Previously, Kozhemiakin was the head of emerging markets debt at Standish Mellon Asset Management from February 2007 to January 2016. He also worked as an emerging markets debt portfolio manager at Putnam Investments and as a sovereign analyst at Citibank. Kozhemiakin’s research on fixed income has been published in leading finance journals. He has had a postdoctoral fellowship in International Relations and National Security Studies at Harvard University, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois.