Global Credit
Eric Gold | Head
Matt Jacob | Senior Portfolio Manager
Shu-Yang Tan, CFA | Senior Portfolio Manager
Mark Kehoe, CFA | Portfolio Manager
Michael Depalma | Quantitative Solutions
Heather Howell | Client Portfolio Manager
Emerging Markets Debt
Valentina Chen, CFA | Co-Head
Philip Fielding, CFA | Co-Head
Henry Stipp, PhD | Portfolio Manager
Chris Garcia, CFA | Quantitative Analyst
Gordana Ilic, CFA | Credit
Eric Gold is the Head of the Global Credit team, Co-Head of the Credit Committee and a member of the Investment Policy Committee. Eric is responsible for leadership and oversight of the team’s strategies, spanning high yield, loans and investment grade credit. Before joining the Global Credit team, Eric served as a Managing Director on the MacKay High Yield team. Over his tenure at MacKay Shields, Eric has been active in credit analysis and portfolio construction, covering a wide array of industry sectors across the credit universe. Prior to joining MacKay Shields in 2010, he was a sell-side Analyst covering the telecommunications, cable and media sectors at Sterne Agee & Leach, Inc. Previously, he was an Analyst at BlackRock and a sell-side Analyst at Grantchester Securities where he was ranked by Institutional Investor as the #1 analyst in the wireless telecommunications sector for 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Eric received a BA from Vassar College and an MBA from New York University. He has been working in the investment industry since 1987.
Steve Friedman is Senior Macroeconomist for the Global Credit and Global Fixed Income teams and Chair of the Investment Policy Committee. Steve joined MacKay Shields from BNP Paribas Asset Management (originally Fischer Francis Trees & Watts), where he served as a Senior Economist providing macroeconomic forecasts and scenario analysis for internal investment teams as an input into strategic and tactical asset allocation. Prior to that, he served as Director of Market Analysis and Foreign Exchange and Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he held a variety of senior roles for more than fifteen years. Steve received his BA from Wesleyan University and holds masters degrees from Johns Hopkins – School of Advanced International Studies and Columbia Business School.