Dan Roberts

Dr. Daniel C.
Roberts is an Executive Managing Director & Head of Global Fixed Income at MacKay Shields LLC.
He is also a Chief Investment Officer.
His responsibilities include spearheading macro-economic research, managing portfolios and chairing GFI’s Investment Policy Committee.
Directing the IPC is he is most important investment responsibility as this Committee is the foundation of the GFI team-based approach to managing portfolios.
The IPC’s voting members are GFI’s three most senior investment professionals, who have worked together for nearly two decades.
Dr. Roberts joined MacKay Shields in 2004 when the firm acquired the fixed income business of Pareto Partners, where he had served as Chief Investment Officer.
He first began assembling his team in 1989, when he was appointed head of fixed income at UBS Asset Management.
In 1997 the team joined Forstmann-Leff International and was subsequently purchased by Pareto Partners in 2000.
Prior to UBS, he worked at Chase Manhattan Bank, initially as a Financial Economist before being named head of Global Interest Rate and Currency Swaps Trading.
Before joining the private sector, he served at The White House with the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1981 to 1983, was the Chief of Staff of the U.S.
Congress’ Joint Economic Committee from 1984 to 1985 and was an economist at the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission from 1977 to 1978.
Dr. Roberts holds a BBA and a PhD from University of Iowa.
He has been working in the investment industry since 1977.