General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> January 12, 2009

INVESTING IN FIXED INCOME FUNDS – JOHN GONZE – THORNBURG ASSET MANAGEMENT

Josh Gonze is a Managing Director for Thornburg Investment Management and co- portfolio manager for Thornburg Municipal Bond Funds. He is responsible for credit analysis for new bond transactions, monitoring credit quality within the portfolios, and evaluation of sector-wide credit trends. His scope of activity includes assessment of industry, business and financial risk, including calculation of financial and operating ratios. He also assists in trading bonds for both the mutual funds and private accounts. He joined Thornburg Investment Management in 1999, and was named Managing Director in 2003. He was promoted to co-Manager in 2007. Prior to joining Thornburg, he served as an Associate Director at Standard and Poor's, where he set credit ratings for corporate bonds. Prior to Standard and Poor's, he worked in corporate banking at the Toronto-Dominion Bank in New York. He holds a BA degree in Economics from Oberlin College and an MBA degree in Finance from the New York University School of Business. Profile
TWST: Would you please start with an overview of Thornburg and the fixed income

funds that you have?

Mr. Gonze: Thornburg Investment Management is an asset manager located in Santa

Fe, New