Richard Cheng is an investment grade portfolio manager for Nuveen’s global fixed income team. He is the lead portfolio manager on Nuveen’s long duration fixed income strategies, including traditional mandates and liability-driven investing mandates benchmarked against the Nuveen Wilshire Pension Investment Indexes and other corporate separate accounts. Richard’s prior experience at the firm involves covering Latin America for the emerging markets debt team as well as covering paper and forest products, chemicals, metals and mining, health care, technology, and utilities and gas pipelines for the investment-grade credit team. He joined the firm in 1997 and he began working in the investment industry in 1992. His prior experience includes various roles at Chase Manhattan Bank as part of its management development program. Richard graduated with a B.S. in Accounting and Management and an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Peter Agrimson, CFA, Portfolio Manager. Mr. Agrimson joined Nuveen in 2008 and is the lead manager of the Short Duration Multi Sector strategy and is a member of the Securitized Debt Sector Team. Prior to his current role, he was a member of the securitized debt sector team, responsible for trading mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities. Peter also performed credit analysis and surveillance for the firm’s mortgage backed securities and asset-backed securities portfolios. Before joining the firm in 2008, he served as credit analyst at Long Lake Partners, LLC, where he performed credit analysis for the company’s structured products portfolio. Peter graduated with a B.S. in Finance from Northern Illinois University. He holds the CFA® designation and is a member of the CFA® Institute.