Christopher Watson, CFA

Portfolio Manager
Christopher Watson, CFA
26 years of experience

Christopher Watson is a Senior Portfolio Manager for Principal Finisterre, an investment team within Principal Asset Management. He is responsible for bottom-up credit and special situations analysis with his expertise leaning towards emerging markets corporates and frontier sovereign strategies. Christopher joined the firm in 2007 as the Head of Credit Research and became a Portfolio Manager on the Total Return Strategy in 2013. Prior to his current role, Christopher served as a investment analyst in the Global Special Situations Group at Citigroup. Christopher was an Assistant Vice President at GE Capital from 2001-2004. He started his career as a financial institutions banker at the Royal Bank of Canada in 1999. He received an MBA from IMD Lausanne and a BA Hons from McGill University, Montreal. Christopher has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.