American Century Investments Announces Addition of Senior Portfolio Manager to Fixed Income Team.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- American Century Investments American Century Investments is a privately held investment management firm. Its headquarters are located at 4500 Main in Kansas City, Missouri, near the famous Country Club Plaza. It was formerly known as Twentieth Century Investments. The company was founded by James E. announced it has hired Jim Keegan to serve as senior vice president and senior portfolio manager with American Century This article is about the term used for American power in the 20th century. For the investment company, see American Century Investments. "American Century" is a term coined by Time Investment's $19 billion fixed income division. Keegan will have overall responsibility for the Taxable Credit Team with all credit portfolio managers and analysts reporting to him, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income Dave MacEwen. E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]"Jim is a veteran investment manager with proven expertise managing large, high-grade and high-yield bond High-yield bond See: Junk bond high-yield bond See junk bond. portfolios," MacEwen said. "His considerable experience will contribute to our goals of enhanced performance and the achievement of consistent, repeatable investment processes." E[acute accent]Keegan has some two decades of fixed income experience with a specialization in credit. With American Century's taxable credit team, Keegan will help construct portfolios from a broad universe of fixed income securities. By working with various portfolio managers, analysts and traders, Keegan will focus on finding attractive investment opportunities and manage risk while increasing the team's potential to outperform its industry peers and indices. E[acute accent]Most recently, he was chief investment officer of Westmoreland Capital Management in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of where he built and led the firm's asset management group. He served as managing director and head of high-grade and high-yield fixed income for UBS Global Asset Management UBS Global Asset Management was the multinational investment unit of UBS AG, a very large multinational financial firm formed in 1998 from the merger of Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation. . As a senior member of that firm's $51 billion fixed income management team, Keegan was responsible for managing credit risk assets for the mutual fund and institutional businesses. E[acute accent]Keegan joins the American Century Investments fixed income team in northern California that is staffed by some 40 investment professionals. Keegan will also be part of the firm's macro strategy team, which is responsible for market analysis and investments tactics regarding duration, yield curve and sector allocation Sector allocation Investment of certain proportions of a portfolio in certain sectors. See: Industry allocation. . The leadership team evaluates both broad economic factors and security-specific issues, which assists money managers to determine the portfolios' overall interest-rate exposure and which fixed-income areas to emphasize. E[acute accent]Keegan earned a bachelor's degree in business management from St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and a master's in business administration from Fordham University Graduate School of Business. E[acute accent]American Century Investments is a leading investment manager with nearly fifty years of experience helping investors achieve their financial goals. Serving investment professionals, institutions, corporations and 1.6 million individual investors, American Century offers a broad array of products across a variety of investment disciplines. E[acute accent]Based in Kansas City, Mo., the company manages approximately $100 billion in assets through mutual funds, separate accounts, commingled trusts, subadvisory accounts and institutional class funds. James E. Stowers James E. Stowers (born 1924) is the founder of American Century Investments and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Jim Stowers graduated from Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri. Jr. founded the company in 1958. His son, James E. Stowers III, is chairman and William M. Lyons is president and chief executive officer. For the past seven years, American Century, which employs 1,900 people, has been selected as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for in America. For more information about the company, visit www.americancentury.com. |
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