- Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
- Boston
United States, Institutional
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As one of the world's largest fixed income investors, with more than US$400 billion in AUM, we are a long-term, collaborative partner to companies across credit markets. Our extensive underwriting and credit analysis capabilities — combined with our in-depth ESG and global industry research — fuel our expertise in finding differentiated sources of alpha in every corner of the credit markets.
Investment grade private placement
Our investors seamlessly combine our extensive private placement experience, our firm-wide underwriting and credit analysis capabilities, our broad research platform across asset classes, and our deep experience working with insurers —as one of the largest asset managers for insurance companies globally.
We take a hybrid approach to the private placement market, combining direct origination with partnership-driven engagement with syndicate agents. We believe unique origination and selective syndicated sourcing may offer incremental value, improve allocations, and enhance diversification.
Meet the private credit team
- Associate, Growth Lending
- Boston
- Technology Sector Lead, Growth Lending
- San Francisco
- Associate, Private Placements
- New York
- Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
- Boston
- Head of Portfolio Management, Private Placements
- Boston
- Head of Private Placements
- New York
- Director of Private Credit
- Boston
- Head of Growth Lending
- San Francisco
- Associate, Private Real Estate Credit
- New York
- Principal, Private Real Estate Credit
- New York
- Fixed Income Credit Analyst
- Boston
- Deal Lead, Private Placements
- New York
- Portfolio Manager and Head, Private Real Estate Credit
- New York
- Principal, Growth Lending
- New York
- Portfolio Manager, Private Real Estate Credit
- New York
As a long-term partner, Wellington understands companies’ credit needs and has the expertise to find the right solutions for the big picture.
News
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Forbes | Wellington Access Ventures Raises $150 Million To Back Underrepresented Founders
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Our Wellington Access Ventures Team sat down with Forbes to discuss the final close of the private investing platform’s first early-stage venture capital fund and how they look to partner with "the next industry-defining companies."
Source: Forbes.
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Wellington Management announces US$150 million final close for Wellington Venture Investments I
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We are pleased to announce the final close of Wellington's first early-stage venture fund focused on investing in large and growing markets like the B2B software, fintech, and consumer sectors.
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iCapital® and Wellington Management forge global partnership
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iCapital® and Wellington Management Forge Global Partnership to Enhance Access to Institutional-Quality Alternative Investments
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What’s the Fed got to do with it? The impact of rate cuts on CLO equity
Our CLO experts discuss the implications of Fed rate cuts on CLO equity, emphasizing its potential to maintain income amidst rate sensitivity challenges in other credit assets.
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Article
2026-10-31
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Commercial real estate debt: Transitional assets deep dive
Our private commercial real estate debt experts explore transitional CRE assets, highlighting their key characteristics, how they differ from other parts of the CRE debt universe, their potential roles in a portfolio, and much more.
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Article
2026-10-31
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Investment-grade private credit market deep dive
Emeka Onukwugha and Elisabeth Perenick explore the evolving investment-grade private credit market, highlighting its key characteristics, liquidity profile, roles in a portfolio, and much more.
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Article
2026-10-31
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Private credit roundtable: The role of covenants
Our private credit team explores the evolving role of covenants in today’s private credit landscape, highlighting their continued importance despite differing availability in specific markets.
4 min
Video
2026-08-31
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Commercial real estate debt market update
Our private credit team discusses the CRE debt market's growth, evolving dynamics, and opportunities for private lenders amid higher rates and reset valuations.
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Article
2026-08-31
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CLOs and the growth of private credit
Alyssa Irving profiles private credit's influence on CLOs, focusing on its ability to refinance lower-quality issuers and the potential benefits for the broadly syndicated market.
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Video
2026-07-31
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Private credit: Is the illiquidity premium still worth it?
Our private credit team explores the value of the asset class’s illiquidity premium in today’s uncertain markets.
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Article
2026-06-30
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CLO equity’s role in asset allocation
We discuss CLO equity's role in asset allocation, highlighting its potential income and diversification benefits. In addition, we explore its potential fit alongside private equity, private credit, and public equity allocations.
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Article
2026-06-30
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CLO investing and active ETFs
Alyssa Irving explores the evolving role of active ETFs in the AAA CLO market, highlighting their significant growth, the impact of increased trading activity, and the potential opportunities they create.
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Video
2026-06-30
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Deep dive on CLO equity investing
Alyssa Irving, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, discusses the CLO equity asset class, highlighting its diversification potential, risk-return dynamics, and the crucial role of managers.
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Video
2026-06-30
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The intersection of AI and private credit
Our private credit experts highlight AI's influence on asset class’s market growth, emphasizing how investments in infrastructure like data centers has the potential to drive long-term market opportunity.
4 min
Video
2026-06-30
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9 min
Private credit: Public/private convergence
Our private credit experts explore the convergence of public and private markets, highlighting key areas of opportunity in private credit 2.0.
9 min
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2026-03-31
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CLO equity returns in a tight spread environment
Our CLO experts discuss CLO equity investing in today's tight spread environment, focusing on arbitrage, optionality, and income potential.
6 min
Article
2026-02-28
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Private credit roundtable: Outlook in 2025
Our private credit experts explore the potential effects of Trump 2.0 policies — like tariffs and deregulation — on the asset class in 2025. In addition, they dive into the impact of higher-for-longer interest rates, the broadening of private credit markets, and much more.
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Video
2026-02-28
Article
Alternative Investment Outlook
This collection provides timely ideas across the spectrum of alternative investments -- including hedge funds, private equity, and private credit.
Article
2025-12-31
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Private credit outlook for 2025: 5 key trends
Our private credit experts, Emily Bannister and Sonali Wilson, highlight five critical trends for 2025: the convergence of public and private markets, AI's impact on private credit, the evolving role of banks in lending markets, the impact of higher interest rates, and the importance of financial covenants.
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Article
2025-12-31
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CLO equity insights: Private credit
Explore how the convergence of public and private markets is impacting CLO equity, including the unexpected benefit it has driven in recent years.
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Article
2025-08-31
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Private placements: A primer for corporate DB plans preparing to derisk
With many corporate DB plans exploring derisking opportunities, Portfolio Manager Elisabeth Perenick and Multi-Asset Strategist Amy Trainor discuss the potential role that private investment-grade credit, or private placements, could play and consider common questions about liquidity and allocation sizing.
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2025-08-31
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Beyond the noise: Four key drivers of private credit opportunities
With recent negative headlines around private credit, we think it's crucial to move beyond the noise and explore the asset class's enduring trends like disintermediation, the convergence of public and private markets, and much more.
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Article
2025-06-30
Whitepaper
Liability-hedging diversifiers: What’s on your pension’s playlist?
Corporate pensions moving closer to their end state may benefit from more diversified liability-hedging allocations. To help, LDI Team Chair Amy Trainor offers a liability-hedging diversifiers “playlist” — a set of asset classes and strategies that may harmonize well with a variety of objectives, from downside mitigation to long-term outperformance versus long corporate bonds.
Whitepaper
2024-10-31
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