Mike serves as a senior portfolio manager with lead portfolio management responsibility for the High Quality High Yield Strategy and the Full Market High Yield Strategy. Mike joined the firm as a leveraged finance research analyst covering financials and has been a senior portfolio manager of the firm since 2007. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Mike was a senior analyst with Oppenheimer Funds, Inc., covering the telecommunications and cable industries. He was previously vice president and co-head of research at BNY Capital Markets, Inc., where he held responsibility for the telecommunications and consumer related industries. Prior to that he was at Mendham Capital Group as a managing partner in high yield research, where he focused on consumer-related industries. Mike received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware, School of Engineering and an M.B.A. degree from Rutgers University.

James is head of leveraged finance trading, and also serves as a co-portfolio manager for the High Quality High Yield Strategy and the Full Market High Yield Strategy. In addition, he has research responsibilities for the financials industry. Upon joining the firm in 1997 with a background in fixed income analysis and trading, James served as an analyst, co-portfolio manager, and head trader in the mortgage backed securities group. In 2002, he joined the high yield team as a trader and later was named head of the High Yield Trading team. Prior to joining Seix, James was with Prudential Securities, where he handled corporate, government and mortgage trades as well as settlement and portfolio administration. James received a B.A. degree in Marketing from the University of Delaware and is a CFA Charterholder.