Manuel is a senior portfolio manager responsible for managing investment grade and high yield cash strategies. He actively works with credit researchers to develop new investment grade and high yield strategies. Additionally, Manuel has pioneered innovation in bond trading with “bond basket” trading to enable lower transaction costs, scalability and enhanced liquidity in the credit space.

Previously at the firm, he served as the primary credit trader on all Global Investment Corporate, High Yield, Emerging Market Hard Currency, Sovereigns and Municipal bonds.

Manuel has been in the investment industry since 2004. Before joining the firm in 2009, he was a credit portfolio associate with Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). Prior to that, he was a fixed income trading associate with Metropolitan West Securities (Wachovia, now Wells Fargo).

Manuel earned a BS in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.