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Shannon Kirwin is a principal, fixed-income ratings, for Morningstar.* She is based in Munich and covers mutual funds, with an emphasis on fixed-income strategies.

Before joining the German investment research team in July 2013, she spent four years in Morningstar’s Chicago office, first as a software training manager and then as a mutual fund analyst covering fixed-income strategies in the American market.

Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. Before joining Morningstar in 2009, she spent a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China as a Fulbright fellow. She speaks Mandarin Chinese.

*Morningstar Deutschland GmbH (“Morningstar”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc.

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