Michael is a portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team. He focuses most of his investment effort on assessing opportunities in local debt and currency markets, both for our standalone Emerging Local Debt approach, where he serves as the lead portfolio manager, and for strategies that use local markets more opportunistically.

Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2014, Michael worked as a partner and portfolio manager at Tandem Global Partners (2012 – 2014), a New York-based hedge fund. Prior to that, he was an executive director and proprietary trader in emerging markets at JPMorgan (2004 − 2012), specializing in relative value and arbitrage in rates and currencies. Before that, he worked at Oppenheimer Funds managing emerging markets portfolios principally for retail investors. He began his career in research and continues to engage extensively with the research team at Wellington Management. Michael earned his MA in international economics and finance from the Lemberg School at Brandeis University (1996) and his BA in economics, cum laude, also from Brandeis University (1992).