Ellis Phifer

Mr. Ellis Phifer, CFA MBA, is a Managing Director at Raymond James & Associates, Inc. His primary responsibilities include product and portfolio analysis for institutional fixed income investors with an emphasis on Total Rate of Return strategies, Insurance Services, and Municipalities.
Mr. Phifer spent 10 years in fixed income portfolio management, as Director of Fixed Income for the Employees Retirement System of Texas where he was responsible for the overall management of a $6B fixed income portfolio benchmarked against the Barclays Aggregate index.
His experience includes managing most mortgage, agency, corporate, CMBS, ABS and U.S.
treasury portfolios.
Prior to joining Morgan Keegan, he was the Agency and Market Strategist and Head Technical Strategist for FTN Financial where he worked with portfolio managers across asset classes on various total return strategies.
Mr. Phifer received his B.S.
in Finance from the University of New Orleans and an MBA from The University of Texas.
He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Market Technician designations.