Carl is the head of the Global Investment Grade Credit team with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2017. As the leader of the team, his responsibilities include chairing the core strategy team (which sets portfolio risk allocations) and acting as lead portfolio manager for a number of strategies. Carl has 32 years of investment-industry experience. He previously worked at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, where he was head of the core fixed-income team; earlier at the firm, he led the credit team and the investment grade research team. Before that, he worked at Fleet Investment Advisors where he managed taxable fixed-income funds and institutional portfolios. He began his career as a corporate bond trader. Carl has a B.S. in accounting from Babson College. He is a CFA Charterholder.