Mark Zheng, CFA^®, FRM

Mark Zheng is a portfolio manager for Nuveen, focused on Multi-Sector portfolio management. He is currently lead manager of a diversified, total return component portfolio for the CREF Real Estate Account. He is also a co-manager for the Stable Value Account. Mark is a member of the Core and Core-Plus Strategy teams. Mark provides strategic and quantitative analysis across a broad set of Multi-Sector Fixed Income strategies incorporating emerging markets, mortgage-backed securities, high yield bond and loans and non-agency structured products. Since joining the firm in 2010, he has held several positions, including co-manager of fixed income ETFs. He also served as a research analyst for investments in mortgage-backed securities and as a business analyst for fixed income business applications.

Prior to working in the financial services industry, Mark worked in the engineering industry, providing consulting services for global pharmaceutical, chemical, and manufacturing firms.

Mark graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Master’s degree in Engineering from The Cooper Union and an M.S. in Computational Finance from the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. He is a CFA charter holder and certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), with membership in the CFA Institute and Global Association of Risk Professionals, respectively.