Jim Schaeffer

Jim Schaeffer

Global Head of Leveraged Finance

Bio

Jim Schaeffer is global head of leveraged finance and serves as a portfolio manager for the various leveraged finance strategies. He is also responsible for stressed and special situation securities, and all restructuring and bankruptcy situations for the firm. In addition, he is a member of the Aegon Asset Management Steering Committee that sets global macro and asset allocation strategies (global macro views) and has responsibility for implementation of those views in the US. Prior to his current role, Jim served as a vice president at PPM America’s Distressed Debt and Workout group. He also worked in corporate banking and investment banking positions at Wachovia Corporation, Bank of America Securities, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in Chicago. He has been in the industry since 1993 and started with the firm in 2004. Jim received his BS in finance from Miami (Ohio) University and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.