Principal GIF Preferred Securities Class I - Income (GBP)

Mr. Jacoby joined Spectrum in 1995 as Portfolio Manager. Previously, Mr. Jacoby was a Senior Investment Officer at USL Capital Corporation (a subsidiary of Ford Motor Corporation) and was a co-manager of a the preferred stock portfolio of its US Corporate Financing Division for six years. Mr. Jacoby began his career in 1981 with The Northern Trust Company, Chicago and then moved to Los Angeles to join E.F. Hutton & Co. as a Vice President and Institutional Salesman, Generalist Fixed Income Sales through most of the 1980s. BSBA (Finance), Boston University School of Management.

Mark is an executive director and chief financial officer for Spectrum Asset Management, an affiliate of Principal Global Investors. He is responsible for business development and client management. Prior to co-founding Spectrum in 1987, Mark was a founder, director, and partner of DBL Preferred Management, Inc., a wholly owned corporate cash management subsidiary of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. He was instrumental in the formation and continual development of all aspects of DBL Preferred Management, Inc., including the daily management of preferred stock portfolios for institutional clients, general hedging strategies, and all marketing strategies employed by the firm. Mark's prior employment includes the development of the preferred stock trading desk at Mosley Hallgarten & Estabrook. He received an MBA in finance from the University of Hartford and a bachelor's degree in economics from Central Connecticut State College. Mark passed the FINRA Series 7, 3, and 63 examinations.