Julio is a Porfolio Manager in the Emerging Market Debt team. He started his career in 1999 in the Latin American and Caribbean region team of Charles Schwab & Co. In 2005, he joined MacKay Shields LLC; a subsidiary of New York Life Investment Management, as an emerging markets credit analyst within the global fixed income group. Julio has also worked at H2O Asset Management, a global macro hedge fund, focusing on emerging market credit opportunities. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.