Christopher Gunster

Chris is Head of CIO Fixed Income Portfolio Management for Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management and has been with the team since its inception. He has over 30 years of investment experience with a majority of his experience in fixed income asset management. His background includes experiences as a director of a fixed income for a hedge fund, partner and founder of a boutique asset management firm, fixed income director for a large institutional bank owned asset management firm, analyst for online bank, and other senior management and research roles. 

As Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management, Chris’s team is responsible for portfolio strategy and implementation across the all bond strategies, which includes duration and curve strategy, sector allocation, and security selection. The team works closely with traders, credit analysts and others 

members of the CIO Fixed Income Team to construct portfolios and to communicate to the firm’s overall fixed income strategy both internally and externally. He is a member of the CIO Investment Strategy Committee as well as other responsibilities with in the firm. He has been frequently quoted in Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and other media outlets. Additionally he has been a speaker at numerous forums and conferences on fixed income strategy, portfolio construction and fixed income markets. 

Chris has a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Kenyon College and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College Graduate School of Business.