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Advisor Information for NWXEX

Fund Inception11/02/2015
Name of IssuerNationwide
Fund Advisor(s)Nationwide Fund Advisors
Sub-Advisor(s)Victory Capital Management Inc.

Fund Managers for NWXEX

Jonathan Duensing
Portfolio Manager since 11/02/2015
Jon Duensing, CFA, is Senior Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income, US, Director of Multi-Sector Fixed Income, and Portfolio Manager. He supervises all fixed income portfolio management and research activities for Amundi US, and leads a team of approximately 50 investment professionals who manage a wide range of US and global fixed income portfolios for institutional and retail clients worldwide. He is also a member of portfolio management teams responsible for managing stand-alone high-grade credit, multi-sector credit, and cross-over fixed income strategies. He is a member of the US Investment Committee, US Executive Committee and US Management Committee. He reports to Ken Taubes, Chief Investment Officer, US. Prior to his position as Head of Fixed Income, US, and Director of Multi-Sector Fixed Income, Jon was most recently Director of Investment Grade Corporates and Senior Portfolio Manager. In that role, Jon led a team of investment professionals responsible for managing high-grade and crossover corporate credit exposure across all fixed income portfolios at Amundi US. He was responsible for managing stand-alone high-grade credit, multi-sector credit and cross-over fixed income and absolute return strategies. Jon joined Amundi US (Smith Breeden Associates) in 1996 as Investment Analyst, and became a Portfolio Manager for Multi-Sector and Corporate Credit Strategies in 2000. In 2006, he was named Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager, adding an Absolute Return strategy to his PM role, as well as personnel management responsibilities. He also served as Deputy Chief Investment Officer from 2014-2017. Prior to joining Amundi US in 1996, Jon was the Credit Officer for a member bank of Old National Bancorp. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, graduating with distinction and departmental honors. He became a CFA® charterholder in 1999.
Kenneth Monaghan
Portfolio Manager since 11/02/2015
Kenneth J. Monaghan is Managing Director, Co-Director of High Yield, and Portfolio Manager at Amundi Pioneer. Based in Durham, he is a Portfolio Manager on US high yield and global high yield strategies. Ken is also Co-Director of a team of portfolio managers who specialize in identifying and capitalizing on high yield and bank loan opportunities globally. The team also provides insight and recommendations for a number of multi-sector fixed income strategies managed by the US fixed income team. Prior to joining Amundi Pioneer in 2014, Ken was at Rogge Global Partners where he was Partner and Portfolio Manager responsible for US high yield and was an integral part of Rogge’s global high yield strategy; he also ran Rogge’s New York office. He joined Rogge in 2008 from ING Investment Management where he was Managing Director and Portfolio Manager responsible for US high yield. Ken brought ING’s institutional US high yield strategy to Rogge. He co-founded the strategy in 1996 at a predecessor organization to ING and was co-portfolio manager of the strategy from its inception and the sole senior portfolio manager of the strategy from 2007 through June 2014 when he left Rogge. Prior to becoming a portfolio manager, Ken spent 13 years at Salomon Brothers starting as a high yield analyst eventually heading Salomon’s high yield research effort in New York. He subsequently spent five years in London as head of Salomon’s London credit research team and upon his return to New York in 1991 launched Salomon’s nascent distressed credit effort. He spent his final years at Salomon as a Director of Institutional Sales. He began his career as a credit analyst at Lord, Abbett & Co. Ken is a graduate of Colgate University and holds both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from New York University.
Jeffrey Galloway
Portfolio Manager since 02/28/2023
Jeff Galloway is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Senior Credit Analyst at Pioneer Investments, which was formerly known as Amundi US, and was acquired by Victory Capital in 2025. Jeff is a Portfolio Manager for Multi-Asset Credit strategies that invest in a broad spectrum of domestic and global credit related sectors with a focus on corporate credit (Investment Grade, High Yield and Leveraged Loans) and securitized credit. As a senior member of Pioneer Investment’s Corporate Credit Research team, Jeff focuses primarily on telecom issuers.