Vanguard Adds to Fixed Income Group

Wright-Casparius reports to Kenneth E. Volpert, principal and head of Vanguard’s Taxable Bond Group, and replaces him as co-manager of the $36.8 billion Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities Fund. Vanguard principal John Hollyer will continue as co-manager of the fund.   

According to the announcement, prior to Vanguard, Wright-Casparius served as a fixed income portfolio manager and Deputy Head of Global Macro Research & Strategy for a subsidiary of the Government of Singapore sovereign wealth fund. In her role as a portfolio manager, she was responsible for an actively managed global inflation-linked bond portfolio. Her previous experience includes working as Director, Fixed Income Research at Barclays Capital, where she developed the firm’s U.S. inflation-linked securities strategy and served as the firm’s liaison with the Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve System on the inflation-linked bond market.