Ken Monaghan is a Managing Director, Co-Director of High Yield, a Portfolio Manager at Pioneer Investments, which was formerly known as Amundi US, and was acquired by Victory Capital in 2025. Ken is member of the team managing US High Yield and Global High Yield portfolios and separate accounts. He is a member of the Investment Committee at Pioneer Investments.

Prior to joining Pioneer Investments in 2014, Ken was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Rogge Global Partners where he was responsible for US High Yield and was an integral part of Rogge’s Global High Yield strategy; he also ran Rogge’s New York office. He joined Rogge in 2008 from ING Investment Management where he was Managing Director and Portfolio Manager responsible for US High Yield. Ken brought ING’s institutional US high yield strategy to Rogge. He co-founded the strategy in 1996 at a predecessor organization to ING and was co-portfolio manager of the strategy from its inception and the sole senior portfolio manager from 2007 through June 2014 when he left Rogge. Prior to becoming a portfolio manager, Ken spent 13 years at Salomon Brothers, starting as a high yield analyst eventually heading Salomon’s high yield research effort in New York. He subsequently spent five years in London as head of Salomon’s London credit research team and upon his return to New York in 1991 launched Salomon’s nascent distressed credit effort. He spent his final years at Salomon as a Director of Institutional Sales. He began his career as a credit analyst at Lord, Abbett & Co.

Ken is a graduate of Colgate University and holds both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Finance and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from New York University.