Wen-Fu Wu

Wen-Fu Wu is Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of Fixed Income for the TIAA General Account (GA) portfolio. In his capacity as Deputy CIO, he supports the CIO in directing overall portfolio strategy and providing oversight across all of the General Account’s assets. As Head of Fixed income, Wen-Fu focuses on the GA’s more than $200bn of fixed income investments, developing and directing investment strategy within these mandates, which include public and private debt investments in investment grade, high yield, municipal debt, project finance and infrastructure, middle market direct lending, emerging markets, and structured asset classes.

Previously, Wen-Fu was at Susquehanna International Group, where he served as a quantitative desk strategist and corporate bond trader. Prior to Susquehanna, he was a quantitative analyst at The Hartford where he helped manage the general account portfolio there as well as third party institutional assets. He has also held positions as an interest rate strategist at Lehman Brothers and as a credit analyst at Putnam Investments.

Wen-Fu holds dual bachelor’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is a member of the Board of Directors at LEAP, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and representation of Asian and Pacific Islanders. He also serves on the Advisory Board for AsianUpward and is a member of the Ascend Executive Network of pan-Asian leaders.