Joan Payden is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Payden & Rygel, the global investment management firm that she founded in 1983 and has overseen the firm’s international expansion. In 1992 the firm launched Payden & Rygel Investment Group, a family of mutual funds, of which she is Chief Executive Officer. Subsequently many of these strategies were duplicated in UCITS funds domiciled in Ireland. In 1998 Payden & Rygel Global Ltd. was founded in London. At the same time, the firm established Metzler-Payden, LLC, its joint venture with Metzler Bank, Germany’s oldest private bank. In addition to the London office, in 2010 a Boston office was opened and more recently opened the Milan, Italy office. Joan serves on the UCLA Anderson School board of advisors and is a trustee of Loyola Marymount University and a trustee emeritus of the University of Southern California. She is also a member of the board of the Town Hall of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Sports Council, the California Chamber of Commerce, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. She is past chairman of the Investment Counsel Association of America.

Joan is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and earned a BA from Trinity Washington University in Mathematics and Physics.

Brian Matthews is a Managing Director and the Chief Financial Officer at Payden & Rygel and is a member of the board of directors. Brian is a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee and serves as a Senior Portfolio Manager advising institutional clients, including corporations, pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and endowments. He is a director of Metzler-Payden, LLC, the firm’s joint venture with Metzler Bank of Frankfurt, Germany.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Brian was an investment officer at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company in New York, where he was responsible for managing fixed-income portfolios and asset/liability management.
Brian is a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles, the CFA Institute, and the Investment Counsel Association of America, Inc. He is past chairman and on the executive board of directors for the Boy Scouts of America Los Angeles Area Council and serves on the board of directors for Oaks Christian School, St. Anne’s, Salvation Army, and is a board member of the Patron of the Arts in the Vatican Museums.
Brian earned a BS in Economics at the University of Notre Dame.

Kristin Ceva is a Managing Director at Payden & Rygel. Kristin is a member of the firm's Investment Policy Committee and is a Senior Portfolio Manager directing the firm's emerging market debt strategies. She also is a frequent speaker at industry forums and in the media, focusing on topics related to international investing and emerging markets.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Kristin worked as a consultant for Deloitte & Touche, and with a number of international policy institutes including: the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the North America Forum at Stanford University.
Kristin serves on the boards of EMpower (a non-profit organization founded by emerging markets financial professionals to support at-risk youth), California Community Foundation and Polytechnic School, and is on the California Committee of Human Rights Watch.
Kristin earned a PhD from Stanford University in Political Science with an emphasis on international political economy. She was a Fulbright Scholar based in Mexico City. Kristin has completed extensive economic and political research on emerging markets and is fluent in Spanish. She received a BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Jeffrey Cleveland is a Managing Director and the Chief Economist at Payden & Rygel. He is a member of the Investment Policy Committee. He is responsible for developing views on the US and global economy and the capital market implications. Jeffrey is a frequent speaker at industry forums and often appears on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, Fox Business News, Bloomberg Radio, and National Public Radio to discuss financial markets and the economy.
Jeffrey is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). Jeffrey earned a MA in International Political Economy with an emphasis in international money and finance from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Economics/Global Political Economy from Whittier College through the Whittier Scholars Program.
As an avid open-water swimmer, Jeffrey swam across the English Channel in September 2008, across the Catalina Channel in 2009, and around Manhattan in 2010, becoming the 36th person to have completed this “triple crown” of open water swimming.

Alfred Giles is a Managing Director and the head of Corporate Research at Payden & Rygel. He is responsible for managing the firm’s research process across investment grade, high yield, emerging markets, and equities. He is a member of the firm's Investment Policy Committee. Giles is also responsible for evaluating and recommending investment opportunities throughout the capital structure across various strategies. Al is a co-leader of Payden & Rygel’s Diversity & Inclusion initiative and represents Payden & Rygel on the CEO Advisory Council for the NICSA Diversity Project North America.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Alfred worked as a Credit Analyst at UBS Investment Bank where he was responsible for providing investment recommendations to institutional investors. Previously, he was an investment banker at Credit Suisse and served in the U.S. Army as a Captain.
Alfred holds the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority series 7 and series 63 licenses. He earned an MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Business & Law from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BS in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY.

Bradley Hersh is a Managing Director and the Treasurer of Payden & Rygel. He is a member of the Board of Directors. As a Senior Financial Officer, he is responsible for accounting, budgeting and financial reporting. He also manages mutual fund accounting, regulatory issues and management reporting for the Payden Funds, the firm’s family of no-load, low-expense mutual funds.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Bradley was the Assistant Controller responsible for accounting and financial functions at Sierra Capital Management. He was the Assistant Treasurer for the Sierra Trust Funds where he managed mutual fund accounting, regulatory issues and management reporting.
Bradley earned an MBA with an emphasis in finance from the University of Southern California. He received a BBA with an emphasis in accounting from Baylor University.

Arthur Hovsepian is a Managing Director at Payden & Rygel. He’s a Portfolio Manager on the sovereign focused Emerging Market Debt strategies and the lead local market strategist.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Arthur was a Portfolio Associate at PIMCO in the global fixed income group, where he was responsible for the currency risk management process for global portfolios. Arthur started his career at Merrill Lynch in London before moving to JP Morgan as an Associate on the Credit Derivates desk in New York.
Arthur serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Payden & Rygel Global SIM. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Los Angeles. He received an MBA from The UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BS in Economics and Statistics from University College London.

Nigel Jenkins is a Managing Director at Payden & Rygel, and is responsible for the Firm’s London office, Payden & Rygel Global Ltd. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee and oversees the Global Fixed Income strategy team, which manages all Euro and Sterling base currency and global benchmarked fixed income portfolios. Nigel is also part of the leadership team of our unconstrained fixed income group, with a focus on absolute return and multi asset credit portfolios. He is a director of Payden Global Funds plc. and Chairman of Payden AIF ICAV, which houses Payden Multi Asset Credit Fund. 
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Jenkins was a founding partner of Centric Capital LLP, a fixed income and currency hedge fund. Previously he was head of global fixed income at WestLB, and a director of the fixed income & currency group at Rothschild Asset Management, both in London.
Nigel also serves on the board of a Cambridgeshire Community Land Trust, focused on providing affordable housing to enable people with local connections to live locally.
Nigel Jenkins holds the ASIP designation of the UK Society of Investment Professionals, a member society of the CFA® Institute. He earned an MA degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge. 

Laura Lake is a Managing Director at Payden & Rygel. She is a Senior Portfolio Manager, advising institutional clients including public pension plans, endowments, universities and corporations. Laura leads the firm’s core bond, custom liability, cash flow matching, and replication strategies. She also oversees the firm’s global ESG initiatives and is a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Laura was the Chief Investment Officer and Chair of the Investment Committee at Breckinridge Capital Advisors. She served on the executive committee, led the investment team and was responsible for developing the institutional business. Prior to that, Laura was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Insight Investments (Standish), managing core and liability-driven general account portfolios for insurers. Before Standish, she managed money for institutional clients at Allspring Global Investments (Wells Capital). She also worked for HSBC in London where she was responsible for external manager selection.
Laura holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. She earned a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MS in Finance from London Business School.

Jordan Lopez is a Managing Director at Payden & Rygel and is the head of the high yield strategy group. He co-manages the firm’s high yield bond and loan strategies and is actively involved in all aspects of portfolio management including bond selection, portfolio positioning, and risk control. Jordan is an internal trustee on the board of directors for The Payden & Rygel Investment Group, the sponsor of the Payden Funds, for which Payden & Rygel is the investment advisor.
Prior to joining Payden & Rygel, Jordan worked for Deloitte & Touche in the Audit and Assurance Group.
Jordan currently serves as a trustee on the board of the Gooden School and is a member of the CFA Society of Los Angeles. He earned a BA from Claremont McKenna College in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.