Mr. Caraher is a Co-Head of Investments, a member of the Risk Committee and responsible for Symphony’s retail and institutional bank loan-focused portfolios, including credit trading related to bank loans. Mr. Caraher has served more than 15 years at Symphony. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, he was an Investment Banking Analyst in the industrial group at Deutsche Banc Alex Brown in New York.  Mr. Caraher received a BS in finance from Georgetown University.

She joined Nuveen Asset Management in 2001 and has worked on investing in corporate private placements, project finance, lease finance and investment-grade public debt offerings across a variety of industries. Since 2009, she has been a member of Nuveen Asset Management’s leveraged finance team and was previously a senior research analyst responsible for covering the gaming, leisure and retail industries. She also oversees the risk and analytics function for Nuveen Asset Management’s global fixed income team. She is a member of Nuveen Asset Management’s Investment Committee, which establishes investment policy for all global fixed income products. She graduated with a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. She holds the CFA designation, is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts.

James S. Kim, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager for Nuveen’s leveraged finance team with a focus on the management of high yield strategies. Previously, he served as co-head of global fixed income research and head of the leveraged finance research team. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, he was an associate at Greywolf Capital Management and an analyst at Watershed Asset Management. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in 2000.