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Edward Fane, CFA, is a portfolio manager in the U.S. outcomes group for real return and income strategies within Morningstar Investment Management LLC. He is a fund manager for the Morningstar Global Income Fund, Morningstar Defensive Bond Fund, Morningstar Unconstrained Allocation Fund, and Morningstar Alternatives Funds. He is also the global asset class lead on U.S. fixed income.
Before joining Morningstar Investment Management in 2018, Fane was a member of Morningstar’s European Investment Management Group, which he joined in 2014. There, he helped to develop the outcomes-orientated capabilities, in particular the Morningstar Multi Asset Real Return strategies. He served as European lead for strategic bond and emerging-markets debt managers, and assumed the role of emerging-markets debt asset class lead for the global investment management business.
Before joining Morningstar, Fane worked at Thesis Asset Management, where he helped to grow the institutional focused business and dedicated fund research department. His role covered private office and business-to-business relationships, as well as co-managing the firm’s suite of multi-asset unit trusts. Fane led the fixed-income fund research effort for Thesis Asset Management and sat on the fixed-income asset-allocation committee.
Fane holds a BA (Hons) in philosophy from Warwick University, UK, a Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment diploma, and is a CFA Charter Holder.
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