Stone Harbor Investment Partners Adds Jared Lou as Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Manager

Experienced EMD investor brings sovereign debt, local currency, and quantitative research expertise

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stone Harbor Investment Partners (“Stone Harbor”), a leading emerging markets debt (EMD) manager, today announced that Jared Lou, CFA, has joined its EMD team as a Portfolio Manager. Mr. Lou will focus primarily on sovereign hard currency and local currency debt strategies and will report to Stone Harbor’s Investment Oversight Team, which is comprised of the Stone Harbor’s most senior portfolio managers.

Mr. Lou brings more than 14 years’ experience in emerging markets debt investing, spanning portfolio management, sovereign credit research, frontier markets, and quantitative modeling. He joins Stone Harbor from William Blair Investment Management, where he served as a Portfolio Manager on its EMD team, co-managing its multi-asset emerging markets debt strategy. He previously held portfolio management and research roles at NN Investment Partners and Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. (GMO), where he focused particularly on Latin American sovereign debt and developed proprietary sovereign credit and relative value models.

“Stone Harbor has a track record in emerging markets debt dating back more than 35 years and a highly collaborative investment approach,” said Mr. Lou. “I’m thrilled to join a team with such deep expertise in the asset class and look forward to contributing to the sovereign debt strategies.”

Mr. Lou holds an MBA in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.A. in policy economics from Tulane University, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, cum laude, also from Tulane. He is a CFA charterholder. His hire is effective November 2, 2026.

About Stone Harbor Investment Partners

Stone Harbor Investment Partners is a global institutional fixed-income investment manager singularly focused on emerging markets debt, applying its expertise in allocating risk across sovereign and corporate credit, hard currency and local currency markets. Stone Harbor’s investment team manages portfolios for institutional clients worldwide, including public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies. Stone Harbor Investment Partners is a division of Virtus Fixed Income Advisers, LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser.

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