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Mousumi Chinara, CFA, is a Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager of the Fixed Income team at Northern Trust Asset Management in Chicago. Mousumi’s main responsibility is to manage index based intermediate to long duration portfolios. She is responsible for managing various separately managed accounts with a focus on balance sheet and insurance clients. Prior to joining Northern Trust Asset Management in February 2019, Mousumi worked at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) and VOYA Investment Management as a Portfolio Manager responsible for various US, Canada and Asia Pac based clients.
Mousumi received a M.B.A. degree in Finance from Goizueta Business School (Emory University). Mousumi is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Chicago.
Chaitanya Mandavakuriti, CFA, is a fixed income portfolio manager and the co-head of Investment Grade Credit. He is responsible for the management of active fixed income portfolios for domestic as well as international mandates. Chaitanya manages the Core/Core Plus strategies as well as Quant Active Fixed Income strategies. He joined Northern Trust in 2013 as a fixed income research analyst and transferred to the Portfolio Management team in July 2016. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Chaitanya worked on bespoke fixed income research covering European banks for buy-side clients from 2010. He received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management specializing in Finance and Strategy prior to which he earned a Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Chaitanya is a CFA charterholder.
Christine Tinker, CFA, is a Senior Portfolio Manager on the Global Equity team within Northern Trust Asset Management. She is responsible for managing Quantitative and Tax Advantaged Equity Strategies for high net worth and institutional investors. Prior to joining Northern’s Global Equity team in 2015, Christine was a Portfolio Manager at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management where she managed investment portfolios for ultra high net worth individuals. Christine received a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a CFA® Charterholder, earned the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing, and is an active member of CFA Society Chicago and the CFA Institute.
Quinn Whitaker, CFA, is a Portfolio Manager on the Global Equity team within Northern Trust Asset Management. He specializes in the implementation of Tax Advantaged Equity and Quantitative Factor strategies. Prior to joining the Global Equity team in 2017, Quinn was a Portfolio Manager at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management where he managed investment portfolios for high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients. Quinn received a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Indiana University. Quinn is a CFA charter holder and a member of the CFA Society of Chicago and the CFA Institute.
Peter Wilke, CFA, is head of tactical asset allocation (TAA) at Northern Trust Asset Management. Peter is responsible for the research and development of innovative investment strategies for the firm’s TAA initiatives. Previously, Peter worked at Wellington Management, where he was the team leader of the multi-asset income investment boutique in Boston. His group was responsible for developing and managing multi-asset portfolios. Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2015, Peter was a member of the multi-asset portfolio strategies team at BlackRock in London and New York where he spent 10 years as portfolio manager and head of the global tactical asset allocation research team. Peter started his professional career at Deutsche Bank in 1999 before joining Merrill Lynch in London in 2005. Peter holds a bachelor’s degree, with honors, in international economics from Nottingham University in 2004 and a master’s of science degree in economics and finance from Warwick Business School in 2005.