Robert Cook, CFA, Portfolio Manager
Thomas Hauser, CFA, Portfolio Manager

JPMorgan Asset Management’s High Yield strategy utilizes a fundamental, bottom-up research process with a disciplined security selection process which seeks to consistently generate superior risk-adjusted returns.  Proprietary fundamental research, a disciplined approach to relative value, and risk management drive the investment process which results in a well-diversified, optimally constructed portfolio.

Robert Cook, CFA, managing director, is head of the Fixed Income High Yield Team and lead portfolio manager for JPMAM’s high yield total return, sub-advised mutual fund assets and absolute return credit products.  In addition, he serves on the Global Macro Team which determines the firm’s fixed income views of the global economic landscape and portfolio positioning.  An employee since 2004, Robert was most recently co-head of the fixed income investment process at 40|86 Advisors, where he was responsible for managing High Yield total return assets and was the director of credit research.  Prior to joining 40|86 in 1994, he worked at PNC Bank’s investment banking division in Pittsburgh, where he was involved with syndicated loans, M&A, private placements and structured products.  Robert earned a B.S. in finance from Indiana University.  He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the Indianapolis Society of Financial Analysts.