Mr. Ivascyn is Group Chief Investment Officer and a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He is lead portfolio manager for the firm’s income strategies and credit hedge fund and mortgage opportunistic strategies. Prior to joining PIMCO in 1998, he worked at Bear Stearns in the asset-backed securities group, as well as T. Rowe Price and Fidelity Investments. He holds an MBA in analytic finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in economics from Occidental College.

Mr. Murata is a managing director and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, managing income-oriented, multi-sector credit, opportunistic and securitized strategies. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year (U.S.) for 2013. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2001, he researched and implemented exotic equity and interest rate derivatives at Nikko Financial Technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering-economic systems and operations research from Stanford University. He also earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School and is a member of the State Bar of California.

Dr. Sharef is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Americas Portfolio Committee and has served as a rotating member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he worked in the mortgage credit strategists group at Morgan Stanley. He has over 11 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University, specializing in statistics and biometrics. He received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

Dr. Ali is an executive vice president in the Newport Beach office, focused on quantitative equity research and portfolio management. He also leads the quantitative equity research team. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2020, he was a portfolio manager at MIG Capital, responsible for managing and developing global quantitative equity strategies. His research papers have been published in the Journal of Financial Economics and have earned the 2018 and 2019 AQR Insight Award, CQA Academic Paper Award, and Crowell Memorial Prize. He has investment experience since 2009 and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.