Meet Stella

Stella Ma joined Vontobel in April 2021 and is Portfolio Manager / Analyst within Vontobel Fixed Income. Stella co-manages the Credit Opportunities strategy and is deputy portfolio manager Emerging Markets Corporate Bond strategy. Stella is also lead portfolio manager of the Global High Yield Bond strategy.

Prior to joining Vontobel, she worked at Julius Baer Investment Management from March 2016, where she set up a global high-yield bonds fund and was its lead manager. Before that, she was a portfolio manager and credit analyst at Bluecrest Capital Management in London. She was allocated capital to run a credit long/short portfolio within the firm’s multi-strategy credit fund and became a Bluecrest Partner in 2010. Previously, she worked as a high-yield credit analyst at Morgan Stanley in London for three years. She started her career in fixed income in 2001 as a credit research analyst at ING Financial Markets.

Stella holds a Master of Science in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also a CFA® charterholder.