Allspring Emerging Markets Equity Class Z - Accumulation (GBP)

Jerry Zhang is a senior portfolio manager and co-head of the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team at Allspring Global Investments. In this capacity, he has oversight and portfolio management responsibility for all portfolios managed by the team. Jerry joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). He joined WFAM from Evergreen Investments, where he served in a similar role and earlier was a senior analyst. Before that, he was an emerging market equity research analyst at Oppenheimer Asset Management. Jerry began his investment industry career in 1999. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Nankai University and a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University. Jerry has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of CFA Society Boston.

Derrick Irwin is a senior portfolio manager and co-head of the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team at Allspring Global Investments. In this capacity, he has oversight and portfolio management responsibility for all portfolios managed by the team. He joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). He joined WFAM from Evergreen Investments, where he served as a senior research analyst. Earlier, he served as an analyst with Advest Inc. and as an investment professional with Goldman Sachs & Co. Derrick began his investment industry career in 1993. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Colgate University and a master's degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Pennsylvania. Derrick has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of CFA Society Boston.

Richard Peck is a senior portfolio manager for the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team at Allspring Global Investments. He joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Prior to WFAM, he served as an emerging market equity research analyst at Fidelity Management & Research and American Century Investments focusing on the Latin American equity markets. Before that, he was an analyst at Goldman Sachs with the firm’s Latin America Equity Research department. He began his investment industry career in 2000. Richard earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master’s degree in finance from Brandeis University. He has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation.

Prashant Paroda is a portfolio manager for the Intrinsic Emerging Markets Equity team at Allspring Global Investments. He joined Allspring from its predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Before joining WFAM, he served as an analyst for Barclays and Arrowhawk Capital Partners. Earlier, Prashant served as an assistant vice president at Moody’s Investors Service and as a quantitative analyst at Markston International LLC. Prashant began his investment industry career in 2002. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Grinnell College and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.