Stone Harbor Hires William Blair's Jared Lou as Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Manager

Stone Harbor Investment Partners appointed Jared Lou as a portfolio manager on its emerging markets debt team, effective November 2, 2026. Lou brings more than 14 years of emerging markets debt investing experience and joins from William Blair Investment Management, where he was a portfolio manager on its EMD team. Business Wire announced the hire.

Jared Lou's Role and William Blair Background

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 made up of the firm's most senior portfolio managers. At William Blair he co-managed 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 concentrated on Latin American sovereign debt and built proprietary sovereign credit and relative value models.

His experience spans portfolio management, sovereign credit research, frontier markets and quantitative modeling. 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.

"Stone Harbor has a track record in emerging markets debt dating back more than 35 years and a highly collaborative investment approach," Lou said. "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."

Stone Harbor describes itself as a global institutional fixed-income manager focused on emerging markets debt, managing portfolios for public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies. It is a division of Virtus Fixed Income Advisers, LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser. The firm's announcement names Laura Parsons as its media contact.

Manulife and Western Asset Debt Team Moves

Manulife Investment Management appointed Anand Rajagopal as Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Alternative Debt on October 28, 2026, Aktien reported. Rajagopal, based in London, brings more than 17 years of experience across private and public fixed income markets, including roles at BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, and reports to Liam Spillane.

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund Inc. Elected Peter Mason as a Class III Director at its annual stockholder meeting on October 16, 2026, MarketScreener reported. Mason will serve until the 2029 annual meeting or until his successor is elected, resigns or is removed.

Lou's Start Date at Stone Harbor

Stone Harbor's hire of Lou took effect November 2, 2026, the date the firm announced the appointment.