Mackenzie Fixed Income Team

Konstantin Boehmer, Senior Vice President, Investment Management, is Head of Global Macro and Quantitative Analytics, co-lead of the Fixed Income Team, and a Portfolio Manager. Konstantin focuses on actively managing global fixed income mandates using fundamental and quantitative/technical strategies. 

Konstantin joined Mackenzie Investments in July 2013. His portfolio management career began in 2003 at Lazard Asset Management in Germany as a European Fixed Income portfolio manager. He transferred to the company’s New York office in 2009, achieving progressively senior portfolio management positions within the Global Fixed Income team. In 2021, Konstantin was appointed to his current role of co-lead of the Fixed Income Team and Head of Global Macro and Quantitative Analytics. 

Konstantin received his Bachelor degree in European Business and Spanish from the University of Hertfordshire (UK) and a MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US).

Dan Cooper, Senior Vice President, Investment Management, is Head of Credit and a Portfolio Manager on the Mackenzie Fixed Income team. Dan is responsible for the actively managed higher yielding portfolios with AUM of over $10 billion, including; the Unconstrained portfolios, North American and Global High Yield Bond portfolios, and Floating Rate Loan portfolios.

Dan joined Mackenzie in 1997, working in various capacities before joining the investment team in 2003. Since joining the Mackenzie Fixed Income Team as a High Yield Credit Analyst in 2006, Dan has taken on progressively more senior positions and responsibilities. Most recently, Dan was promoted to his current role of Head of Credit with oversight over a group of Portfolio Managers, as well as the Head of Investment Research and the team of 6 analysts. 

Dan has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from York University, and is a CFA charterholder.

Movin Mokbel, Vice President, Investment Management, is a Portfolio Manager on the Mackenzie Fixed Income Team with a primary responsibility for the loan market. Movin focusses to the management of floating rate loan and high-yield bond mandates, and engages with our credit  and trading teams in the day-to-day selection and trading of loans and high yield bonds. 

Movin’s career in the investment industry began in 1998, and he joined the Mackenzie Fixed Income Team in 2012. His previous experience includes roles with BMO Capital Markets on Wall Street as a High-Yield Analyst working on the trading desk, as a deal-structuring investment banker.  

Movin received a BSc from York University, as well as an MBA from the University of Toronto. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Joined Mackenzie in 2018

• Specializes in macro research/analysis of global monetary and fiscal policy, economic data, geopolitics, and market positioning helping to determine duration, yield curve, and currency positions for our strategies. 
• Former Chief Market Strategist of a macro research house; Global Head of foreign exchange strategy at a multinational European bank; and economist at a Swiss investment bank
• Began his career as a trader for the Bank of Canada’s Foreign Reserve Fund and quantitative researcher at a major bank
• BA in economics; MBA from the Ivey Business School at University of Western Ontario. Additionally, Dustin is a member of Board of Governors for SickKids Foundation.

Felix Wong, Vice President, Investment Management, is a Portfolio Manager on the Mackenzie Fixed Income Team. In his current role, he is responsible for overseeing the implementation of tactical portfolio management across a variety of Canadian investment-grade portfolios. 

Felix’s career in the investment industry began in 1988. He joined Howson Tattersall Investment Counsel in 1999, and the company became part of Mackenzie Investments in 2008. His previous roles included serving as Assistant Vice President of credit at a large international bank, where he analyzed corporate lending transactions to Canadian corporations, as well as acting as a Research Analyst covering Asian-Pacific industries and companies. 

Felix has BSc and MBA degrees from the University of Toronto. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Ken’s career in fixed income began in 2006 as a Financial Analyst with DBRS. Ken joined Scotiabank’s Debt Capital Markets team in 2010, where he played a role in structuring many of Canada’s high yield transactions during a period of substantial growth before joining Mackenzie Investments’ Fixed Income Team in 2014 where he focuses on non-investment grade assets.

Ken has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, specializing in finance and international trade, from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He has also taught the Fixed Income Securities course under the University of Toronto’s Rotman Commerce program.