Balaji Venkataraman is a client portfolio manager for American Century Investments®, a premier investment manager headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. He is based in the company’s New York office. Balaji is responsible for representing portfolio management in communicating fixed-income investment strategies and results to the firm’s clients. He joined American Century Investments® in 2022 from Wellington Management, where he was a fixed-income investment specialist. In this role, he worked closely with fixed-income investment teams as a product manager and communicated their investment strategies externally with clients and prospects. Prior to joining Wellington Management, Balaji worked as a senior project manager at Casey, Quirk & Associates, where he advised investment managers globally on business growth and product management strategies. Previously, he worked at two fixed-income hedge fund managers, NWI Management and Claren Road Asset Management, as a trading assistant and investor relations professional. He has worked in the investment industry since 2003. Balaji holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in business administration from the Yale School of Management.