Kelleher promoted at Newfleet

Christopher J. Kelleher has been promoted to senior managing director and head of institutional asset management at Newfleet Asset Management in Hartford.

The boutique asset management company has $10.7 billion of assets under management in an array of fixed income strategies. Newfleet is an affiliated manager of Virtus Investment Partners in Hartford.

Kelleher joined Newfleet in 2012 as managing director and senior portfolio manager and is co-manager of the Virtus Balanced Fund, the Virtus Bond Fund and the Virtus Low Duration Income Fund. He has more than 25 years of investment experience in all bond market sectors, including both publicly traded and private placements.

He previously was a senior managing director and senior portfolio manager at Goodwin Capital Advisers, where he managed approximately $1 billion in multi-sector bond portfolios.