Diversified Income Fund

Robert M. Almeida Jr. is an investment officer and global investment strategist for MFS Investment Management® (MFS®), offering insight and perspective on cyclical and secular trends impacting investors. He also serves as a member of the portfolio management teams for multiasset income and alternative strategies. Rob joined MFS in 1999 and served as an institutional portfolio manager for the Fixed Income Department from 2007 through 2009. He joined the US Growth Equity team in 2009 and became a portfolio manager in 2014. He added additional portfolio management responsibilities in 2018 and assumed his current strategist title in 2019. Rob is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and earned his Master of Science degree in finance from Sawyer Business School.

Neeraj Arora, CFA, is an investment officer and fixed income portfolio manager for MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). He is co-manager of the firm's emerging markets debt strategies, which include both US dollar--denominated and local currency strategies, as well as dedicated emerging market debt portfolios within several multi-asset fixed income strategies at the firm. Before joining MFS in 2011, Neeraj worked as an economist and sovereign research analyst for six years on the emerging market fixed income team at J.P. Morgan. Neeraj earned a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and a master's degree in economics from Georgetown University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

David P. Cole, CFA, is an investment officer of MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). He is also a co-portfolio manager of the firm's high-yield portfolios.

David joined MFS in 2004 after working for five years as a high-yield analyst for Franklin Templeton Investments. Before that, he served as a financial economist/Treasury market analyst for Thomson Financial Services and an economist for Standard and Poor's.

David has a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Our portfolio managers are supported by our entire team of investment professionals in nine worldwide offices. The team employs a proprietary investment process to build better insights for our clients. The core principles of our approach are integrated research, global collaboration, and active risk management.

Richard R. Gable, CFA, is an investment officer and equity portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). He covers the real estate sector and manages the firm's real estate investment trust portfolios.

Rick joined MFS in 2011. Previously, he was a managing director and portfolio manager for 13 years for Sun Capital Advisers, a division of Sun Life Financial. While at Sun Capital, he managed several MFS real estate investment trust portfolios through a subadvisory relationship between MFS and Sun Capital. He also served as an analyst for Mellon Bank for four years. He has worked in the financial services industry since 1993.

Rick has a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston College. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.

Our portfolio managers are supported by our entire team of investment professionals in nine worldwide offices. The team employs a proprietary investment process to build better insights for our clients. The core principles of our approach are integrated research, global collaboration and active risk management.

Alexander M. Mackey, CFA, is co-chief investment officer of Fixed Income at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). As co-CIO, he has joint oversight of MFS' global fixed income team and works collaboratively with the firm's investment leadership team to ensure its fixed income investors have the tools and skill sets necessary to serve clients globally. He is also a fixed income portfolio manager on several strategies, including the firm's multisector fixed income strategies, with oversight of dedicated US credit portfolios. Alexander assumed his current role in 2023. Prior to taking on portfolio management responsibilities in 2017, he worked as a credit research analyst for 13 years and a fixed income research associate for three years. He joined MFS as a financial control assistant in 1998. Alexander has a bachelor's degree from Trinity College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is a member of CFA Society Boston.

Jay Mitchell, CFA, is an investment officer and fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, he collaborates with the full MFS global investment organization to develop and implement portfolio strategies that seek to achieve long-term performance objectives. His responsibilities encompass all aspects of portfolio construction, including risk budgeting, asset allocation, security selection and risk management. Jay joined MFS in 2000, first serving in the firm's retirement services division. In 2003, he was named fixed income trading associate and in 2004 was named fixed income research associate. In 2007, he was promoted to research analyst and in 2017 was named director of emerging market corporate research. He added portfolio responsibilities in 2020, and in 2023 was named portfolio manager on the US and global credit strategies. Jay earned a bachelor's degree in finance and a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston College. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute and is a member of the CFA Society Boston.

Jonathan W. Sage, CFA, is an investment officer and equity portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). He is a member of the portfolio management team responsible for the firm's Blended Research, low volatility and other quantitatively managed equity strategies. In this role, he is responsible for final buy and sell decisions, portfolio construction and risk and cash management. He also participates in the quantitative research process and strategy discussions. Jonathan joined MFS in 2000 as a quantitative equity research analyst and assumed his current role in 2005. He began his career in the financial services industry in 1995. Jonathan earned a bachelor's degree from Tufts University and a Master of Business Administration degree and Master of Science degree in finance from Boston College. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society, Inc.

Geoffrey L. Schechter, CFA, CPA, is an investment officer at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®) and a portfolio manager of the firm's government securities and municipal bond portfolios.

Geoff joined MFS as an investment officer in 1993 after working as a municipal credit analyst with a major insurance company. He was named portfolio manager in 1993.

Geoff is a graduate of the University of Texas and has an MBA degree from Boston University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designations.

Our portfolio managers are supported by our entire team of investment professionals in nine worldwide offices. The team employs a proprietary investment process to build better insights for our clients. The core principles of our approach are integrated research, global collaboration and active risk management.

Michael Skatrud, CFA, is an investment officer and fixed income portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, he is responsible for final buy and sell decisions, portfolio construction, risk assessment and cash management. He also participates in the research process and strategy discussions. Michael joined MFS in 2013 as a fixed income analyst and was named a portfolio manager in 2018. He previously worked for Columbia Management, where he was as a high yield analyst for four years. Before that, he was a senior credit analyst at Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. for two years and spent seven years as a corporate bond analyst at Putnam Investments. He began his career in the financial services industry in 1996. Michael earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with distinction from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Boston.

Jake Stone, CFA, is an investment officer and fixed income portfolio manager for the US government and mortgage-backed strategies at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). In this role, he is responsible for final buy and sell decisions, portfolio construction and risk and cash management. He also participates in the research process and strategy discussions. Jake joined MFS in 2018 in his current role. He previously worked for Wellington Management Company for six years, most recently serving as a vice president and portfolio analyst for the fixed income portfolio management team. Before that, he worked for three years as a quantitative research associate and member of the fixed income management team at Manning & Napier Advisors. Jake earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in financial economics from the University of Rochester. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Society Boston.