Emerging Markets Debt - Blend

Arif Joshi is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard's Emerging Markets Debt team. He began working in the investment field in 1998. Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Arif was with HSBC Asset Management (formerly Halbis) where he served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager. At HSBC, Arif was responsible for global emerging markets, focusing on corporate and sovereign credit analysis, risk management and quantitative modeling. He began this role at The Atlantic Advisors LLC (acquired by HSBC in 2005). Prior to HSBC, he was an associate at Strategic Management Group where he advised Fortune 500 companies on finance and corporate strategy. Arif has an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Arif is a CFA® charterholder.

Denise Simon is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard’s Emerging Markets Debt team. She began working in the investment field in 1986 and has been investing in Emerging Market Debt for over twenty years. Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Denise was with HSBC Asset Management (formerly Halbis) where she was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for three global emerging markets strategies. Prior to HSBC, she was a Partner and senior portfolio manager at The Atlantic Advisors (acquired by HSBC in 2005). Prior to this, Denise worked abroad from 1987-1998 in London and Germany, where she worked for major financial institutions trading global bonds and EM Debt. Denise has a BA in International Economics from George Washington University. Denise’s outside activities are focused on Mexico and music. She currently sits on the management board of the US-Mexican Chamber of Commerce. She is also on the board of the Richard B. Fisher Center of the Performing Arts, is the chair of the board of the Bard Music Festival, and is a member of the IC for the Bard College Endowment.

Adam Borneleit is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard’s Emerging Markets Debt team and serves as Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Debt. He began working in the investment field in 1990. Prior to joining Lazard in 2015, Adam was a Portfolio Manager and Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Research at BlueBay Asset Management. Previously, he served on the emerging markets portfolio management team at Pacific Investment Management Company, with a focus on corporate bonds. Prior to that, Adam was an analyst at SunAmerica Investments covering high yield bonds in the telecommunications and equipment rental sectors. Adam has an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Economics and a BA in French from the University of Pennsylvania. He speaks fluent Russian.

Sergio Valderrama is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard's Emerging Markets Debt team focusing on the hard currency sovereign debt strategies. He began working in the investment field in 1999. Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Sergio was a sovereign analyst at Moody’s Investors Service where he performed credit analysis on a portfolio of countries. He was responsible for the production of sovereign reports, monitoring of risk and maintenance of sovereign databases. While at Moody’s, Sergio participated in sovereign rating committee decisions. Before that, he was an economist at IDEAglobal. Sergio has an MBA from New York University and a BA from Ithaca College.