Eduardo Cortes is the Chief Investment Officer – Fixed Income of Ziegler Capital Management, LLC and is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of GIA Partners, LLC (“GIA”), a majority minority-owned fixed income firm where Ziegler Capital Management retains a significant ownership interest. Prior to the establishment of GIA, Mr. Cortes was the Chief Investment Officer of Global Investment Advisors, a division of Reich & Tang Asset Management, LLC, for over ten years. From 1985 to 1998, Mr. Cortes worked at JPM and JPMIM where he was a portfolio manager in the fixed income group. At JPMIM he was responsible for dollar and non-dollar fixed income portfolios. During that time, he created and led the Emerging Market Debt portfolio team whose funds grew to more than $4 billion in assets. He was also a member of the Cross-Sector Strategy Team and the Emerging Market Equity/Debt Allocation Team. Prior to joining JPMIM, Mr. Cortes worked on debt restructuring for Latin American sovereigns at Citibank.
Mr. Cortes received a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Mr. Cortes is fluent in Spanish.