Eric Fine
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Joined Van Eck in 2009.
- Serves as the portfolio manager for the Unconstrained Emerging Markets Bond Fund and VIP Unconstrained Emerging Markets Bond Fund, focusing on portfolio construction and investments.
- Prior to joining Van Eck, managed Morgan Stanley's Emerging Markets Proprietary Trading group for 14 years.
- Previously managed Morgan Stanley's Global Emerging Markets Economics and Strategy research group for 10 years. Established Morgan Stanley's Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) Economics and Strategy research group.
- Previously advised numerous governments on their economic policies and debt profiles; rescheduled sovereign debts in countries such as Turkey and the Dominican Republic.
- Established a telecommunications company in Russia that built the country's first securities clearing system.
- MPP, International Trade/Finance, Harvard University, 1989; BA, Public Policy, Duke University, 1987.
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Carlos Nogueira
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Joined Van Eck in 2009.
- Serves as the assistant portfolio manager for the Unconstrained Emerging Markets Bond Fund and VIP Unconstrained Emerging Markets Bond Fund, focusing on operations and trading.
- From 2005 to 2008, was a member of the Morgan Stanley Risk Committee and was the risk monitor for the Emerging Markets, Foreign Exchange, and Strategic trading desks.
- From 2002 to 2005, established a trading flows monitoring program, which integrated, tracked, and analyzed trading flows across multiple trading platforms.
- From 1994 to 2002, managed an index and quantitative analysis group for emerging markets and high yield, which created indices that were used as benchmarks by Barclays Global Investors.
- Previously served as quantitative analyst for Morgan Stanley’s emerging markets and equity groups.
- PhD, Neuroscience, Boston University, 1994; MS, Computer Science, National Institute of Space Research, 1989; BS, Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), 1985.
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David Austerweil
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Joined Van Eck in 2012.
- Serves as the assistant
portfolio manager for the Unconstrained
Emerging Markets Bond Fund and VIP Unconstrained Emerging Markets Bond Fund, focusing on quantitative analysis.
- Prior
to joining Van Eck, was a vice president at ING Financial Services on the
Emerging Markets Credit Trading & Structuring desk.
- Previously was a
member of the Portfolio Management team at The Rohatyn Group, covering global
emerging markets credit, including sovereign bonds, corporate bonds and CDS;
specialized in building quantitative frameworks for the investment process.
- Previously a director in the Quantitative Financial Research group at Fitch
Ratings. Built one of the first industry models to statistically quantify the
credit risk of U.S. commercial real estate loans.
- Began his career as an
analyst in the Municipal Finance Department at Goldman Sachs.
- MS,
Financial Engineering, Columbia University, 2006; BA, Computer Science, Columbia
University, 2002.
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