Kara South

Ms. Kara M.
South, CFA, is a Partner & Municipal Bond Portfolio Manager at GW&K Investment Management LLC.
She is a member of GW&K’s Investment Committee and ESG Committee.
As a seasoned fixed income manager with deep knowledge of the market, including experience managing taxable municipal bonds and ESG strategies, she is able to draw on her extensive research and management expertise in the evaluation of market risks, opportunities and strategic portfolio positioning.
She joins GW&K from Income Research + Management (IR+M), where she was a senior portfolio manager and co-director of credit research and a member of the Investment Committee.
Prior to IR+M, she was a securities valuation analyst at John Hancock Financial.
She began her career at Wachovia Corporation (now Wells Fargo) as an interest rate derivative analyst.
Ms. South earned a BA in Economics and Psychology from Cornell University.
She is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute, the CFA Society Boston, the Boston Municipal Analysts Forum, and the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.