Michael E. Gray

Michael E. Gray, CFA®, is a Managing Director and the Head of Fixed Income & Credit for J.P. Morgan Private Bank CIO Team, based in New York. He is a member of the Wealth Management Global Investment Council. Michael is responsible for coordinating the Private Bank CIO Team’s research and strategy efforts across global fixed income markets. In this capacity he works closely with the firm’s Manager Selection, Portfolio Analytics, Investment Strategy, and Risk Management teams to ensure fixed income themes and investment positions held in client portfolios (including credit, interest rate, and currency exposures) are underwritten and implemented using a disciplined, systematic asset class framework.

Michael joined J.P. Morgan in 2015 with more than 24 years of capital markets experience and brings substantial experience in fixed income research and portfolio management to bear for the Private Bank CIO Team and its clients. Previously Michael was a Managing Director and member of the executive leadership team at Hartford Investment Management Company (HIMCO), the institutional asset management subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Services Group (NYSE: HIG). During his tenure he filled several key roles including Global Head of Research, Co-Head of Third Party Portfolio Management, and Head of Investment Strategy. He also served as the Lead Portfolio Manager for over $45 billion of client assets across a range of insurance, retail, and institutional strategies and supervised portfolio teams managing an additional $30 billion. Prior to HIMCO Michael was a Managing Director and the Head of Credit Research at both Credit Suisse Asset Management and Deutsche Asset Management (New York); he also served as the Head of European Credit Research and a senior credit analyst at UBS Warburg Investment Bank in London.

Michael holds a B.A. in English from Tufts University as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation from The CFA Institute. He is an active member of the CFA® Society New York. He currently resides in CT with his wife and daughter.