Understanding Opportunities in Sustainable Fixed Income

Kurt Braitberg, CFA, CAIA

Managing Director, Head of Public Markets, Builders Vision

Kurt leads Builders Visions’ public markets investment efforts across several multi-asset class portfolios with the goals of achieving market rates of return and meaningful climate impacts.

Previously, Kurt worked for the City and County of San Francisco, where he oversaw the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System’s (SFERS) public equity, fixed income, private credit, and ESG investing efforts and served as CIO for the San Francisco Retiree Health Care Trust Fund (RHCTF). Before the City and County of San Francisco, Kurt was a Managing Director at TeamCo Advisers, an alternative investment advisory firm where he was responsible for managing the firm’s investment process and portfolio allocations. He has also worked for Thomas Weisel Partners, Union Bank of Switzerland in New York, and Paribas Asset Management in Paris.

He earned a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Northern Colorado. He holds the CAIA designation, is a CFA Charterholder, and currently serves on the Board of CFA Society San Francisco and the investment committee of Black Girls Code.

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Rob Fernandez, CFA

Director, Sustainable Research, Breckinridge Capital Advisors

Rob is director, sustainable research. He is also a member of the firm’s Proxy Committee. In his role, Rob leads Breckinridge’s ongoing sustainable investing and engagement efforts, and performs sustainable research analysis. Rob has been with the firm since 2010 and has over 27 years of research experience. Prior to Breckinridge, Rob was a senior research analyst at Opus Investment Management. Rob began his career in credit research at State Street Bank & Trust Co. as a participant in its commercial loan officer development program. He has also held commercial credit analyst positions at Cambridge Savings Bank and Eastern Bank.

Rob is a member of the Board of Directors for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, a member of the Board of Advisors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, and a Town Meeting Member for the Town of Needham, MA. He holds a B.S. from Boston College, an MBA from the Boston University School of Management and a Master of Liberal Arts in Sustainability from the Harvard University Extension School. He is a CFA® charterholder and is an FSA Credential holder.

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Michael Summers, CFA

Portfolio Specialist, T. Rowe Price

Michael Summers is a portfolio specialist in the Global Fixed Income Division. He supports the emerging market debt strategies, which include hard currency- and local currency-denominated sovereign and corporate debt, as well as impact related EM strategies, including the T. Rowe Price Blue Economy Bond strategy.

Michael’s investment experience began in 2006, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2011 where he has held a variety of roles across fixed income trading, client service, and investments all focused on the Emerging Markets debt asset class.

Michael earned a B.S. in financial economics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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Jessica Zarzycki, CFA

Portfolio Manager, Nuveen

Jessica is a portfolio manager for Nuveen’s global fixed income team. She is an integral part of the ESG/Impact fixed income strategy team and a lead portfolio manager for the Global Core Impact strategy and a co-portfolio manager on Core Impact Bond, Green Bond, and Short Duration Impact Bond strategies. She is a frequent panelist and speaker at ESG and Impact conferences and was a member of the ICMA Advisory Board (2020-21), which provides insight and guidance to the Executive Committee on issues affecting the Green, Social, and Sustainable Bond markets. She serves on the Steering Committee for the Orange Bond Principles. The Fixed Income Impact team were awarded “Investment team of the year –asset manager” and “Impact Report of the year” at Environmental Finance’s (EF) 2025 Sustainable Investment Awards in addition to “ESG Fund of the year –fixed income” at Environmental Finance’s (EF) 2024 Sustainable Investment Awards, “Investment team of the year –asset manager” and “Fund of the year –fixed income” at Environmental Finance’s (EF) 2023 Impact Awards.

Jessica joined the firm in 2008 as an agency MBS analyst before joining the International/EMD sector team as a European sovereign and agency analyst. Prior to Nuveen, she worked at Citi Global Wealth Management (GWM), helping to manage liquidity and risk of the GWM balance sheet.

Jessica graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from The Ohio State University. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Society New York and the CFA Institute.

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