Senior Vice-President and Portfolio Manager
AGF Funds Inc.
Jean Charbonneau is a seasoned fixed-income manager with nearly 25 years of industry experience. Jean joined AGF’s award-winning fixed-income team in 2006 as Senior Vice-President and Portfolio Manager. He is lead manager on AGF Global Government Bond Fund* and co-manager on AGF Canadian Bond Fund.
Since his arrival at AGF, Jean has been instrumental in defining a framework for bond investing that exploits duration, currency, yield curve and credit management to achieve superior results. Although Jean contributes to the general management of all the fixed-income mandates, he specializes in duration management, country mix strategy and emerging market bonds within the team.
Jean has more than 19 years of experience managing international fixed-income assets for retail and institutional mandates. His extensive experience in the international bond market includes various roles as trader, chief strategist and institutional sales. Jean has also managed retail bond funds throughout his career for a leading investment firm and managed all international fixed-income assets for La Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec.
Jean earned a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Sherbrooke and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) degree from the University of Ottawa.
Philosophy:
Jean uses a multi-style approach that includes global interest rate and currency anticipation while exploiting the spreads in the yield curve and credit quality to enhance returns.
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