Michael E. Gray, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

New York, Ny, Us

Member, Private Bank CIO TeamMember, Global Investment CouncilCo-Portfolio Manager of the Six Circles Ultra Short Duration (CUSDX), Tax Aware Ultra Short Duration (CUTAX), Global Bond (CGLBX), Tax Aware Bond (CBTAX), and Credit Opportunities (CRDOX) funds.Six Circles Funds are a proprietary, $100+ billion mutual fund complex available exclusively to J.P. Morgan Private Bank and Wealth Management discretionary client portfolios. They provide unparalleled access, cost efficiency, flexibility and precision to the Private Bank CIO Team as we identify and source investment opportunities across the global equity and fixed income markets. J.P. Morgan Private Bank earned an extensive array of honors in Euromoney's 2024 Private Banking Awards including:- World's Best Private Bank- North America's Best Regional Private Bank- United States' Best Domestic Private Bank- Western Europe's Best International Private Bank- Singapore's Best International Private Bank

Managed a diverse portfolio of family investments in public equities, fixed income, hedge funds, private equity and real estate.Provided competitive insights, operating expertise and strategic analysis as an Executive Advisor & Consultant to a US-based private equity firm exploring opportunities in the global asset management industry.

Member of Hartford Investment Management Company's (HIMCO) Executive Leadership Team.Member of Hartford Financial Services Group's (HIG) Senior Leadership Team (top 125 executives).Provided critical leadership to HIMCO and HIG in a series of progressive roles incorporating many Chief Investment Officer (CIO) responsibilities.Highlights include: Spearheaded major improvement in investment performance, with 91% of the firm's institutional composites posting above-median returns for the 3 year period ended March 2013 (versus 38% at December 2009).Served as Lead Portfolio Manager for a number of HIMCO's top-performing fixed income strategies including dynamic allocation fixed income, long duration corporates, opportunistic corporates, and UK corporates.Led investment activity and supervised teams managing roughly 60% of HIG’s $100B general account investment portfolio (Investment Grade Credit, Money Market, and Municipal sector teams).Led investment activity and supervised resources supporting HIMCO’s sub-advisory relationship with Hartford Mutual Funds (27 investment strategies, 32 mutual funds, c. $25B of AUM).Led HIMCO’s Research, Global Credit, and Investment Strategy platforms while designing and executing comprehensive restructuring initiatives for each.Played key role in strategic corporate initiatives that raised roughly $5.9B of new capital for The Hartford during the global financial crisis including: - member of deal team that secured $2.5B capital investment from Allianz SE (October 2008). - member of deal team that secured $3.4B capital injection from United States Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP, June 2009).Represented HIMCO at The Hartford Board of Directors, Executive Leadership Team, and Enterprise Risk Committee meetings, as well as at Hartford Mutual Funds Board of Directors and Investment Committee meetings.

Zurich, Ch

Global Head of Credit Research, Chairman of Global Credit Committee for Credit Suisse Asset Management.Managed team of 19 high-grade, high-yield and emerging market analysts in New York, London, Zurich and Sydney. Senior PM for US Investment Grade Credit, Back-up PM for US High Yield (c. $3 billion and $1.2 billion in AUM, respectively).Senior member, US Core/Core Plus portfolio management team (c. $8 billion in institutional and retail assets).

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Head of US Credit Research for DeAM's largest fixed income division; Member, North American Fixed Income and Global FI Research Management Committees. Managed 11-person high-grade and high yield team in New York and Philadelphia.Directed strategy and investment process for $30 billion of U.S. credit exposure.Senior PM for roughly $5 billion in dedicated cash and synthetic (CDS) credit portfolios.

Zurich, Ch

2000 - 2002Executive Director, Head of European Credit ResearchLondon, Zurich1999 - 2000Director, Senior Credit AnalystStamford, CT

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Senior Credit Analyst

Left for one year for Salem Cooperative Bank (below)

Acting CFO

Boston, Ma, Us

Co-headed a rotating staff of field examiners while managing the Division's centralized research and analysis unit

Boston, Ma, Us

Performed field examinations, assisted in regulatory oversight and enforcement of state chartered lending insititutions

Executive Education Program, Investment Decisions & Behavioral Finance

Ba, English

High School Diploma, College Preparatory, Honors