Brent Olson
Brent Olson is a Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson Investors on the US Fixed Income and Corporate Credit Teams, a role he has held since 2019. Brent rejoined Janus Henderson in 2017 as a credit analyst. Prior to this, he was a lead portfolio manager at Scout Investments on a growth equity strategy that emphasized fixed income metrics and credit data points to select stocks. Before Scout, he oversaw high-yield and leveraged equity research as well as managed fixed income products at Three Peaks Capital Management from 2005 until 2013. From 2000 until 2004, Brent was an investment analyst at Invesco Funds Group. He started his financial career in 1997 as a credit analyst with Janus until 2000.
Brent received his bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from the University of Virginia. He earned his MBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Colorado and has 26 years of financial industry experience.
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The case for high-yield bonds
A look at high-yield bonds and why some investors might consider a strategic allocation to high yield.
High yield bonds: five factors behind current spread levels
Credit spreads have widened but with recession fears in the air what are the factors currently keeping them in check?
High yield in a rising rate environment
Brent Olson and Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio managers on our Global High Yield platform, explore how factors affecting credit risk in high yield might help balance upward pressure on interest rate risk.