Lesya Paisley

Director/Board Member at

MacKay Shields LLC

49 year

Finance

Consumer Services

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Ms. Lesya P.
Paisley, CFA, is a Managing Director at MacKay Shields LLC.
She is on the Board of Directors at MacKay Shields LLC.
Prior to joining MacKay Shields, Ms. Paisley served as Investment Director and ESG Portfolio Manager, North America at Aberdeen Standard Investments.
She was responsible for managing US dollar strategies including Credit, Corporates, and Core/Core+ strategies and was instrumental in the firm’s ESG policy and product development including Sustainable and Responsible Investment and Climate Transition Fund.
Before Aberdeen, she worked at Deutsche Asset Management as a Credit Research Analyst.
Combined, Lesya spent well over a decade in Credit Research covering a variety of sectors including Emerging Markets, High Yield, Investment Grade, and Municipals.
She earned a BSc degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce.

Lesya Paisley active positions

Companies	Position	Start
MacKay Shields LLC MacKay Shields LLC Investment ManagersFinance MacKay Shields offers a variety of fixed income and equity strategies and solutions that clients can select depending on their investment objectives. They maintain independently managed investment strategy teams, each of which conducts its own research and acts autonomously with its own distinct investment process. Investment strategies may be available through separately managed accounts, wrap programs and/or collective investment vehicles.	Director/Board Member	01/05/2021

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abrdn, Inc. abrdn, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance abrdn utilizes various investment approaches when managing discretionary client accounts and providing recommendations to non-discretionary clients. The firm utilizes a bottom-up, fundamental stock-picking approach, where sector, regional and country allocations are a residual of their bottom-up stock selection decisions, constrained by appropriate risk controls.	Director of Investments	01/05/2021

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MacKay Shields LLC MacKay Shields LLC Investment ManagersFinance MacKay Shields offers a variety of fixed income and equity strategies and solutions that clients can select depending on their investment objectives. They maintain independently managed investment strategy teams, each of which conducts its own research and acts autonomously with its own distinct investment process. Investment strategies may be available through separately managed accounts, wrap programs and/or collective investment vehicles.	Finance
abrdn, Inc. abrdn, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance abrdn utilizes various investment approaches when managing discretionary client accounts and providing recommendations to non-discretionary clients. The firm utilizes a bottom-up, fundamental stock-picking approach, where sector, regional and country allocations are a residual of their bottom-up stock selection decisions, constrained by appropriate risk controls.	Finance
McIntire School of Commerce McIntire School of Commerce Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services