Julie Hughes, Senior Portfolio Strategist, has more than 30 years of finance, strategy, and client relationship management experience. Julie works extensively with clients to develop and implement investment strategies for operating funds and bond proceeds. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and regularly writes the Firm’s economic and market commentary. She is a member of Chandler’s Economic and Market Analysis Committee and Qualitative Analysis Committee.

Prior to joining Chandler, Julie worked as a fixed income portfolio manager, municipal advisor, and municipal credit analyst for Davidson Fixed Income Management. She has deep expertise with structured products and hedging interest rate risk for municipal dept. In addition to advising the public sector, Julie has held positions in corporate strategy and management consulting.

Julie earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Texas of Austin.