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Dr. Pradeep Kumar is a Portfolio Manager at PGIM, Inc. He is responsible for developing EM local markets strategy.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, he was a Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Emerging Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto.
At OTPP he managed local market portfolios across emerging markets, which included a GBIEM index portfolio and an Absolute Return portfolio.
Prior to OTPP, he spent 13 years as a Portfolio Manager in the hedge fund industry.
From 2005 through 2017 he was employed at several firms including Balyasny Asset Management, Woodbine Capital Advisors and Drake Management.
During his time working in the hedge fund industry, he managed a fundamentally driven, discretionally global, macro portfolio with a focus on emerging markets.
Prior to his experience in investment management, he was a director in the emerging markets fixed income quantitative group at Citigroup.
He joined Citigroup in 1997 as a research analyst in emerging markets where he worked on currency and interest rates models and developed quantitative trading strategies.
He received a PhD in Economics from University of Alabama and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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PGIM, Inc.
 PGIM, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance PGIM, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a direct subsidiary of PGIM Holding Co. LLC, ultimately owned by Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). PGIM provides institutional clients with investment solutions worldwide. It is comprised of autonomous asset management businesses each specializing in a particular asset class with a focused investment approach: PGIM Institutional Advisory & Solutions (provides advisory services to institutional clients located in the US and outside of the US), PGIM Fixed Income (an adviser primarily focused on public fixed income investments), PGIM Real Estate (a provider of real estate investment advisory services) and PGIM Capital Group (a private fixed income investment adviser, also known as Prudential Capital Group). | Portfolio Manager-Fixed Income | 2019-01-31 |
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PGIM, Inc.
PGIM, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance PGIM, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1984 and is a direct subsidiary of PGIM Holding Co. LLC, ultimately owned by Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU). PGIM provides institutional clients with investment solutions worldwide. It is comprised of autonomous asset management businesses each specializing in a particular asset class with a focused investment approach: PGIM Institutional Advisory & Solutions (provides advisory services to institutional clients located in the US and outside of the US), PGIM Fixed Income (an adviser primarily focused on public fixed income investments), PGIM Real Estate (a provider of real estate investment advisory services) and PGIM Capital Group (a private fixed income investment adviser, also known as Prudential Capital Group). | Finance |
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