Mr. Baker is the head of the Preferred Securities Sector Team and a member of the Fixed Income Strategy Committee, which establishes investment policy for all taxable fixed income products. He co-leads the taxable fixed income credit oversight process, which provides a structure for implementing credit strategy across taxable fixed income. As a senior fixed income portfolio manager, he is the lead manager for Nuveen Asset Management’s Preferred Securities related strategies, as well as a co-portfolio manager for the Multi-Sector, Core Plus Bond, and Inflation Protected Municipal Bond strategie

Brenda A. Langenfeld, CFA, entered the financial services industry in 2004. She has been a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Nuveen Asset Management since joining the firm in 2011. She was named Co-Portfolio Manager of the Preferred Securities strategy in January 2012. In April 2015, she was named Co-Portfolio Manager of the Real Asset Income strategy. She was named Senior Vice President in March 2017. In March 2019, she was named Managing Director.

Prior to joining NWQ in 2006, Ms. Budiman was Portfolio Manager for China Life Insurance Company, Ltd. in Taiwan. Prior to the fixed income portfolio management position, Ms. Budiman was a currency exchange sales associate at Fleet National Bank in Singapore covering Asian , Euro, UK and other major currencies. Ms. Budiman graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance.

Thomas J. Ray, CFA, is a Managing Director, Co-Head of Fixed Income and Portfolio Manager/Analyst at NWQ Investment Management Company, LLC (“NWQ”). Prior to joining NWQ in 2015, Tom was a Private Investor. Prior to that, he served as Chief Investment Officer, President and founding member of Inflective Asset Management; a boutique investment firm specializing in convertible securities, from 2001 until 2011. From 2011 until joining NWQ in 2015, Mr. Ray was a private investor.