Eric Fine
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- Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy
- Oversees the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Team; responsible for portfolio strategy, credit and market analysis, and security selection
- Investment Management Team member since 2009
- Prior to joining VanEck, founded and managed Morgan Stanley's Emerging Markets Proprietary Trading group
- Previously managed Morgan Stanley's Global Emerging Markets Economics and Strategy research group; established Morgan Stanley's Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) Economics and Strategy research group
- Advised numerous governments on economic policies and debt profiles; rescheduled sovereign debts in Turkey and the Dominican Republic
- Established a telecommunications company in Russia that built the country's first securities clearing system for the Harvard Institute for International Development
- Media appearances include Bloomberg Television; quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Bloomberg, among others
- Contributing author for Institutional Investor and Barron's
- MPA, International Trade/Finance, Harvard University
- BA, Public Policy, Duke University
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David Austerweil
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- Deputy Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy
- Responsible for portfolio management, trade execution, and quantitative investment frameworks; originate both sovereign and corporate investment ideas and research
- Investment Management Team member since 2012
- Prior to joining VanEck, a Vice President at ING Financial Services on the Emerging Markets Credit Trading & Structuring desk
- Previously a member of the portfolio management team at The Rohatyn Group; covered global emerging markets credit; 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
- Earlier career experience includes an analyst position in the Municipal Finance Department at Goldman Sachs
- MS, Financial Engineering, Columbia University
- BA, Computer Science, Columbia University
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Natalia Gurushina
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- Economist for the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy
- Investment Management Team member since 2013
- Prior to joining VanEck, worked for Roubini Global Economics; responsible for Emerging Markets Currency/Fixed Income and G10 Currency Strategies
- Previously an analyst at Pantera Capital Management (Tiger Management spin-off)
- Formerly EMEA economist at Deutsche Bank and Russia/CIS economist at Bankers Trust
- PhD, Economic History, University of Oxford (England)
- BA, Economics, Moscow State University (Russia)
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Carlos Nogueira
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- Deputy Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy
- Responsible for operations and trade execution
- Investment Management Team member since 2009
- Prior to joining VanEck, Risk Committee member and risk monitor for Emerging Markets, Foreign Exchange, and Strategic trading desks at Morgan Stanley; established a multi-platform trading flows monitoring program
- Previously managed Morgan Stanley's index and quantitative analysis group for emerging markets and high yield debt; created indices used as benchmarks by Barclays Global Investors
- Earlier career experience includes a quantitative analyst position for Morgan Stanley’s emerging markets and equity groups
- PhD, Neuroscience, Boston University
- MS, Computer Science, National Institute of Space Research
- BS, Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
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Robert Schmieder
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- Senior Corporate Analyst for the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy
- Investment Management Team member since 2015
- Prior to joining VanEck, Executive Director/Head of Latin America Credit Research at BBVA Securities
- Previously Managing Director/Head of Latin America Corporate Credit Research at HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
- Earlier career experience includes similar positions at Calyon/Crèdit Agricole CIB; Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.; Santander Investment Securites
- MBA, International Finance, New York University
- MA, Spanish Literature, New York University
- BA, Spanish Language and Literature, New York University
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