Bill McDonough

Bill McDonough

Vice President of Investments, Sammons Financial Group

Bill McDonough joined Sammons in November 2014 from Aviva USA where he served as Head of Tactical Asset Allocation. Prior, Bill was the Lead Portfolio Manager & Trader at Principal AFORE in Monterrey, Mexico from 1997-2003. Bill is bi-lingual with international management experience in multi-asset portfolios, strategy development and execution, portfolio management, M&A and business development.

 

He has 20+ years global experience in multi-asset portfolios with a strong emphasis on Fixed Income, Alternative Strategies, Emerging Markets and Asset Allocation strategies; 11+ years of experience as Portfolio Manager & Trader of various global and emerging market strategies while working in Mexico, London and the United States. U.S. citizen fluent in Spanish. He was appointed to Head of European credit trading desk in London during the peak of the Global Financial Crisis. Simultaneously was also Head of Emerging Market - Fixed Income. Bill attended Loras College and received his BA in Finance, Economics. He holds an MBA from Drake University.