Howard C. Greene, CFA Senior Portfolio Manager, Co-Head of U.S. Core and Core-Plus Fixed Income, Manulife Investment Management Howard is co-head of the firm’s U.S. core and core-plus fixed-income team and serves as a co-lead portfolio manager for the core and core-plus fixed-income strategies. Prior to joining the company, he spent more than 14 years at Sun Life Financial Services of Canada as a senior vice president for Sun Capital Advisers, managing investment-grade and high-yield fixed-income portfolios.

Jeffrey N. Given, CFA. Senior Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager; joined Manulife IM (US) in 1993. Jeff co-head of the firm’s U.S. core and core-plus fixed-income team and is responsible for the firm’s securitized, core, core-plus, and government bond strategies. Prior to joining the portfolio management team, he was focused on research and trading in mortgage-backed securities within the Manulife fixed-income teams. Previously, he was an investment compliance analyst at the company.

Pranay is an associate portfolio manager on the firm’s U.S. Core and Core Plus Fixed Income team. Previously, he was a credit research analyst and sector lead responsible for research coverage of the industrials, utilities, and energy sectors. Prior to that, he was a lead credit analyst with Standard & Poor's on various chemical and environmental services issuers and, before that, he worked for Barclays Capital as a sell-side credit analyst assisting coverage in multiple sectors. Pranay holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Connor is an associate portfolio manager on the U.S. core and core-plus and securitized assets teams. Previously, he was an investment analyst on the firm’s securitized assets research team, where he was responsible for coverage of the agency and nonagency mortgage-backed securities sectors as well as certain subsectors of the asset-backed securities market. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior capital reporting and control specialist at Pioneer Investments. Connor holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Spencer is responsible for fixed-income research across global developed markets, covering telecommunications, commercial services, transportation and logistics, and industrials. Previously, he was a VP, assistant director of research, and high-yield bond and leveraged loan analyst at KDP Investment Advisors, Inc. Before that, he was an analyst at Tully & Holland, Inc. and, prior to that, he worked as a senior underwriter at AIG. Spencer began his career as an underwriter at American International Underwriters (AIU). He holds the CFA designation and is a member of the CFA Society Boston.