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Manager Changes, December 2021

By Chip

Each month we track changes to the management teams of actively managed, equity-oriented funds and ETFs. That excludes index funds and most fixed income funds. The index fund exclusion is pretty straightforward: in a passive fund, the managers are interchangeable cogs whose presence or absence is almost always inconsequential to the fund’s performance.

Similarly, most bond fund managers have a very limited ability to add value. For instance, over the past ten years, the top-performing Core Bond fund in the Lipper universe outperformed its peers by just 1% per year with a virtually identical Sharpe ratio (0.98 for the top returning fund, 0.97 for the top returning the average fund). The best global income and flexible income managers outperformed by 3.5 and 2.4%, respectively, which is comparable to the margin between the best large-core equity fund managers and the pack.

This month, we noted just 37 funds with changes in their management teams. The most eye-catching is the dismissal of PIMCO from its role in sub-advising Harbor Bond. For years, PIMCO Total Return (PTTRX) was the biggest, meanest, surest-bet around with $300 billion in assets … and Harbor Bond was its low fee, low minimum, no-load clone. Times change.

Ticker Fund Out with the old In with the new Dt
VEGA AdvisorShares STAR Global Buy-Write Robert Kellogg and Rebecca Valdez no longer serve as portfolio managers of the fund. Kenneth Hyman continues to serve as a portfolio manager. 12/21
BSVIX Baird Equity Opportunity Michelle Stevens is no longer listed as a portfolio manager for the fund. Joseph Milano now manages the fund. 12/21
BXMIX Blackstone Alternative Multi-Strategy Cerberus Sub Advisory and Luminus Management no longer serve as sub-advisors to the fund. Nineteen sub-advisors remain. 12/21
BUFMX Buffalo Mid Cap Chris Carter is no longer a portfolio manager of the fund. Doug Cartwright and Craig Richard join Josh West in managing for the fund. 12/21
CVMAX Calvert Emerging Markets Equity No one, but… Effective January 4, 2022, Vivek Bhutoria joins Kunjal Gala as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
CSIGX Carillon Scout International Effective March 2022, Michael Stack and Angel Lupercio will no longer manage the fund. David Vaughn, Alex Turner, and Gashi Zengeni will now serve as portfolio managers of the fund. 12/21
IGR CBRE Global Real Estate Portfolio Effective January 2022, T. Ritson Ferguson will retire and no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Effective on or about January 1, 2022, it is expected that Kenneth Weinberg will serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
CCGSX Chautauqua Global Growth Brian Beitner announced his intent to retire on December 31, 2022. Jesse Flores, Haicheng Li, and Nathaniel Verlarde will remain. 12/21
CCWSX Chautauqua International Growth Brian Beitner announced his intent to retire on December 31, 2022. Jesse Flores, Haicheng Li, and Nathaniel Verlarde will remain. 12/21
QWVPX Clearwater Core Equity Effective January 1, 2022, Ronen Israel no longer serves as a portfolio manager of the fund. John Huss and Nathan Sosner will now serve as portfolio managers of the fund. 12/21
CDAZX Columbia Multi-Manager Directional Alternative Strategies No one, but… Effective January 1, 2022, John Huss joins Michele Aghassi, Dennis Bein, Eric Connerly, Harindra Silva, Joseph Feeney, Andrea Frazzini, Lars Nielsen, and Ronen Isreal in managing the fund. 12/21
CMLIX Congress Large Cap Growth No one, but… Effective January 1, 2022, Matthew Lagan joins Daniel Lagan as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
CGCAX Cushing Global Clean Equity Jerry Swank will retire and no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Saket Kumar, Hari Kusumakar, and Alex Palma will continue to serve as portfolio managers of the fund. 12/21
NXGAX Cushing NextGen Infrastructure Jerry Swank will retire and no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Saket Kumar, Hari Kusumakar, and Alex Palma will continue to serve as portfolio managers of the fund. 12/21
TILDX DCM/INNOVA High Dividend Income Innovation No one, but… Marc Rappaport joins Vijay Chopra as a co-portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
FSDAX Fidelity Select Defense and Aerospace Portfolio Jonathan Siegmann will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Chad Colman and Clayton Pfannenstiel will serve as portfolio managers of the fund. 12/21
FSAEX Fidelity Series All-Sector Equity Chip Perrone will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Steven Kaye, Douglas Simmons, Pierre Sorel, Robert Stansky, Brian Lempel, John Mirshekari, Jody Simes, Ashley Fernandes, and Melissa Reilly remain. 12/21
FBLEX Fidelity Series Stock Selector Large Cap Value Chip Perrone will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Jordan Michaels joins Matthew Friedman, John Mirshekari, Laurie Mundt, John Sheehy, and Pierre Sorel in managing the fund. 12/21
HABDX Harbor Bond Effective February 2, 2022, PIMCO will no longer serve as sub-advisor to the fund. Effective February 2, 2022, Income Research + Management will serve as sub-advisor to the fund. 12/21
AGGAX Invesco Global Growth Matthew Dennis, Ryan Amerman, Mark Jason, and Mark McDonnell are no longer listed as portfolio managers for the fund. John Delano will now manage the fund. 12/21
JEMMX John Hancock Emerging Markets Equity No one, but… Effective January 2022, Kathryn Langridge will return from leave and join Philip Ehrmann and Talib Saifee in managing the fund. 12/21
LEQAX LoCorr Dynamic Equity Jia Ye will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Jon Essen, Scott Billings, Thomas Billings, Eric F. Billings, Eric P. Billings, Andrew Kurita, Sean Katof, and Dori Levanoni will continue to manage the fund. 12/21
VCRIX MainStay CBRE Global Infrastructure T. Ritson Ferguson will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Joseph Smith, Jeremy Anagnos, Daniel Foley, and Hinds Howard will continue to manage the fund. 12/21
CLARX MainStay CBRE Real Estate T. Ritson Ferguson will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Jonathan Miniman, Joseph Smith, and Kenneth Weinberg remain. 12/21
CSHZX MainStay Cushing MLP Premier Jerry Swank will no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. John Musgrave will remain as the sole portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
NMANX Neuberger Berman Mid Cap Growth Portfolio No one, but… Jennifer Blachford joins Kenneth Turek, Chad Bruso, and Trevor Moreno to serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
ADVNX North Square Strategic Income No one, but… Brandon Bajema joins John Cassady III,  David Withrow, Michael Martin, Jason Schwartz, and Julia M. Batchenko as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
PUBAX PIMCO Dynamic Bond  Mohsen Fahmi will retire and no longer serve as a portfolio manager of the fund. Marc Seidner, Daniel Ivascyn, and Mohit Mittal continue to manage for the fund. 12/21
PRDAX Principal Diversified Real Assets No one, but… Wellington Management Company joins the cavalcade of sub-advisors to the fund. 12/21
GDIIX RNC Genter Dividend Income James Barber is no longer listed as a portfolio manager of the fund. David Klatt and David Pescherine will continue to manage the fund. 12/21
BAEIX Sterling Capital Equity Income George Shipp is no longer listed as a portfolio manager of the fund. Charles Wittmann joins Adam Bergman in managing the fund. 12/21
BOPAX Sterling Capital Special Opportunities George Shipp is no longer listed as a portfolio manager of the fund. Daniel Morral joins Joshua Haggerty as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
TICGX Templeton International Climate Change Marten Bloemen is no longer listed as a portfolio manager for the fund. Lauran Halpin joins Craig Cameron, Tina Sadler, and Herbert Arnett as a portfolio manager of the fund. 12/21
ASHR Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares Hubert Shek is no longer listed as a portfolio manager of the fund. Vicky Hsu joins Kevin Sung in managing the fund. 12/21
ASHS Xtrackers Harvest CSI 500 China A-Shares Small Cap Hubert Shek is no longer listed as a portfolio manager of the fund. Vicky Hsu joins Kevin Sung in managing the fund. 12/21

 

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Cheryl Welsch, MBA (Western Governors). Cofounder, technical director. Chip is the dean of curriculum and accreditation at Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. Chip is responsible for making the Observer actually happen; in cooperation with our graphic designer, she also controls how the Observer looks and acts. She also writes our monthly Manager Changes feature and whittles away at the typofest in our drafts.