Deena K. Raja
Senior Vice President, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Corporate Bond Analyst / Trader
Ms. Raja is a member of the Fixed Income Management Team that overseas the Short, Intermediate, and Core Total Return accounts. Together with Frank Puryear, manages the corporate investments for the firm. She is also responsible for corporate sub-sector valuation analysis.
Prior to joining the firm, she was a senior portfolio strategist responsible for all corporate investments for Prime Advisors Inc. in Redmond, WA. They had over $5 billion in assets under management at the time. She began her career on the sell side for RBC Dain Rauscher trading new issue and secondary agencies and bank qualified municipals. She then moved to First Tennessee Capital Markets (now FTN Financial) to be one of two investment grade corporate traders for 150 salesmen. Directly preceding her move to the buy side, she was the senior corporate trader for Fifth Third Securities Corp.