Barton is the lead active equity portfolio manager for Nuveen’ Emerging Markets Equity strategy. He is a member of the equity research team and is responsible for overseeing a team of analysts who manage portfolios in the Asian consumer products and global consumer products sector.Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Barton served as vice president at Pequot Capital where he ran a long/short Asian portfolio within a global hedge fund. Prior to that, he held positions at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and UBS in Asian equity sales covering buy-side institutions in the western region of the U.S. Barton graduated with a B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Willis Tsai entered the financial services industry in 2005. He joined NAM as Managing Director in October 2019 and became Head of Asian Research and Portfolio Manager in January 2020. He also serves as Managing Director, Head of Asian Research, and Portfolio Manager at Teachers Advisors, LLC, TIAA-CREF Investment Management, LLC and other advisory affiliates of TIAA. He joined TIAA in 2006.