James Rich

James Rich

Senior Portfolio Manager

Bio

James Rich is a senior portfolio manager on the Aegon Climate Capital strategy, the US Sustainable Fixed Income strategy and is a member of the Sustainable Investment Committee. He was a key architect of the Aegon Climate Capital strategy and the US Sustainable Fixed Income strategy and led the establishment of the impact and sustainability frameworks that are used to set the eligible investment universe for both. Leveraging his portfolio management and deep credit experience, James combines a passion for impact and sustainable investing with fixed income expertise and ESG integration insights to manage the strategies. Prior to his current role, he was a member of the special situation and distressed credit portfolio management and research teams, where he applied his bankruptcy and restructuring expertise to the firm’s exposure to global stressed, distressed, and special situation securities. Prior to joining the firm, James worked in private equity at Madison Dearborn Partners and in private equity and investment banking at Morgan Stanley.  James has been in the industry since 2003 and started with the firm in 2008. He received his Sc.B. from Brown University and his MBA with Distinction from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.