Eric Williams

Mr. Eric R.
Williams is a Portfolio Manager at Northern Trust Investments, Inc. He also serves as a Head of Capital Structure & Senior Portfolio Manager on the global fixed income team at the firm.
He has broad oversight of our actively managed leveraged credit platform and is the lead portfolio manager on several leveraged credit strategies across the firm.
Mr. Williams is also a Member of the Fixed Income Strategy Committee, a group that formulates the fixed income platform’s strategic macroeconomic and investment themes that in turn informs overall strategy, risk budgeting and portfolio construction across all fixed income portfolios.
In addition, he serves as the Chair of the Credit Strategy Committee and Capital Structure Committee, groups that formulate the fixed income platform's capital structure asset allocation decisions.
He has over 12 years of experience in fixed income asset management.
Prior to joining Northern Trust, Mr. Williams served as a financial advisor with Waddell & Reed, where he worked to develop financial plans for clients.
He received a B.A.
in economics from the University of Colorado and an MBA in finance and economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.