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Aristotle Pacific Capital manages over $29 billion as of 9/30/24 and includes 20+ fixed income investment professionals who average nearly two decades of industry experience and specialize in credit investments. The team’s disciplined investment process focuses on credit fundamentals for individual security selection.
Portfolio Managers
David Weismiller, CFA
David Weismiller has credit research responsibilities across select sectors. Prior to being a founding member of Pacific Asset Management (now Aristotle Pacific Capital) in 2007, David was a senior member of Pacific Life’s credit research team, overseeing investments in corporate bonds, high-yield, and bank-loan securities from 2002 to 2006. Prior to joining Pacific Life, David was a commercial banking officer with Comerica responsible for investing in a portfolio of leveraged loans. He has over 26 years of investment and banking experience. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. David is a CFA charterholder and member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles.
Ying Qiu, CFA
Ying Qiu has credit research responsibilities, focusing on asset-backed securities (ABS). Prior to joining Aristotle Pacific Capital, Ying was with PIMCO for eight years, where she was a senior vice president, portfolio manager and trader for both investment-grade corporate and ABS. Prior to that, she worked at ING Investment Management for nine years and was an ABS portfolio manager and trader. Ying has 24 years of fixed income investment experience. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China and an MBA from Emory University. She is a CFA charterholder.
We are a bottom-up, credit-focused manager looking for the best ideas in the fixed income market while being agnostic to the overall market.
David Weismiller, Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager