Pushing What's Possible
Voya Investment Management is one of the 50 largest institutional asset managers globally**, providing differentiated solutions across our fixed income, equity and multi-asset platforms, including private
markets and alternatives.
Overview
P R O F I L E
Voya Investment Management is the asset management business of Voya Financial (NYSE: VOYA), overseeing $341 billion* in assets for institutions, financial intermediaries and individual investors. Voya IM is one of the 50 largest institutional asset managers globally.**
E X P E R T I S E
Drawing on a 50-year investing legacy and the expertise of 300+ investment professionals, Voya IM strategies span public and private fixed income, equities, multi-asset solutions and alternatives.
C U L T U R E
We have cultivated a culture grounded in a commitment to understanding and anticipating clients’ needs to produce strong investment performance.
Our History
Throughout our history Voya IM has grown organically and through strategic acquisitions to become one of the world’s largest asset managers.
Investment Capabilities
Diversified across core and specialized offerings, with the resources and experience to deliver solutions to meet our clients’ needs.
ESG Investing
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations are an integral component of the value proposition that we offer our clients. Read more about our ESG investment process.
E S G I N T E G R A T I O N
Understand and integrate the consideration of ESG factors in our investment process
E S G S O L U T I O N
Provide a select range of ESG solutions that consider return, risk, environmental, social and governance impacts
A C T I V E O W N E R S H I P
Implement ESG proxy voting considerations and company engagements to maximize long-term value
Our Experts
Matt Toms, CFA
Chief Executive Officer
Matt Toms is the chief executive officer of Voya Investment Management, the asset management business of Voya Financial. As CEO, Toms leads the strategic direction and operational performance of Voya Investment Management, which manages strategies spanning public and private fixed income, equities, multi-asset solutions and alternative strategies for institutions, financial intermediaries and individual investors. Voya Investment Management has domestic offices in New York City, Atlanta, San Diego and San Francisco, among others, as well investment teams in London, UK.
Matt has over 30 years of asset management experience, both domestically and internationally. Prior to becoming CEO, Matt was global chief investment officer and CIO of fixed income at Voya Investment Management and led a team of investment professionals with broad oversight of Voya’s public fixed income, private fixed income and alternatives, equities, and multi-asset strategies and solutions. Before joining Voya, Matt worked at Calamos Investments, where he built their fixed income business. He also has prior portfolio management experience at Northern Trust and Lincoln National. Matt serves on Voya Financial’s Executive Committee and is a board member of Pomona Capital. He earned a BBA from the University of Michigan and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Eric Stein, CFA
Head of Investments and CIO of Fixed Income
Eric Stein is the head of investments and chief investment officer of fixed income at Voya Investment Management. As head of investments with broad responsibility for Voya IM’s public markets platforms, Eric leads teams of investment professionals across fixed income, multi-asset strategies and solutions, income and growth and equities. As CIO of fixed income, he is also directly responsible for oversight of the portfolio management of the fixed income platform and leadership of the fixed income investment professionals. Prior to Voya, Eric was chief investment officer for fixed income at Eaton Vance and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he was responsible for overseeing over 275 investment professionals managing strategies with approximately $200 billion in assets under management across the fixed income spectrum for institutions and individual investors worldwide. He previously was co-head of the global macro/emerging market debt group at Eaton Vance. Eric earlier worked on the Markets Desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Eric earned a BS from Boston University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a CFA ® Charterholder.
Vincent Costa, CFA
Chief Investment Officer, Equities
Vincent Costa is chief investment officer, equities at Voya Investment Management and also serves as a portfolio manager for the active quantitative and fundamental large cap value strategies. Previously at Voya, he was head of the global quantitative equity team. Prior to joining Voya, he managed quantitative equity investments at both Merrill Lynch Investment Management and Bankers Trust Company. Vinnie earned an MBA in finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BS in quantitative business analysis from Pennsylvania State University. He is a CFA® Charterholder.
Michael Granoff
Chief Executive Officer, Private Equity Funds - Pomona Capital
Michael Granoff is the CEO of Pomona Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Voya, focused on the purchase of primary and secondary interests in top performing venture and buyout funds. Prior to founding Pomona, he worked in the private equity business, serving as the president of partnerships organized to purchase secondary interests in venture capital/buyout funds. Michael also served as a director of private companies engaged in electronics, media, healthcare, manufacturing, interactive software, and financial services, while serving as president of Golodetz Ventures and vice president of TEI Industries. Previously, he was on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. Michael served on the presidential transition team for the Department of the Treasury in 1992, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Former President Clinton appointed him to the Board of the Albanian-American Enterprise Fund, where he served as chairman, and he is also the Chairman of the Board of the American Bank of Albania. Michael earned a JD from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Justin M Kass, CFA
Senior Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer, Co-Head of Income & Growth
Justin Kass is chief investment officer, co-head of income and growth at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business, where he was a portfolio manager, managing director, CIO and co-head of the U.S. income and growth strategies team with portfolio management, research and trading responsibilities for the income and strategies team. Prior to that at AllianzGI, Justin held portfolio manager responsibilities for the U.S. convertible strategy and was a lead portfolio manager for the income and growth strategy since its inception and was also responsible for managing multiple closed-end and open-end mutual funds. Justin earned a BS from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a CFA® Charterholder.
Chris Lyons, CFA
Head of Private Fixed Income and Alternatives
Chris Lyons is a managing director and head of private fixed income and alternatives at Voya Investment Management, responsible for partnering with our clients and internal stakeholders to develop new innovative products and solutions, while ensuring the scalability of the platform for current and future teams. Prior at Voya, Chris was the managing director and group head of Voya’s private credit investment grade and infrastructure businesses where, along with his direct responsibilities in private credit, Chris was also active in overall management of Voya’s fixed income franchise. He has over 30 years of lending and investment experience with the large majority of that time spent with Voya working in and then leading the development of its private lending effort. Prior to joining Voya, he worked as a commercial and investment banker for SunTrust Banks, Inc. Chris earned a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Michael Peters
Chief Operating Officer, Voya Investment Management
Michael Peters is senior managing director and chief operating officer at Voya Investment Management, responsible for operations, data & analytics, product solutions, client service, and technology. He joined the firm following Voya’s acquisition of certain teams and associated assets from Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business. Prior to joining Voya IM, he was based in Europe as head of investment business management and member of the Investment Executive Committee at AllianzGI. During his tenure at AllianzGI, Michael served in various roles including COO Europe and global head of operations, where he was the responsible lead for the Alternatives Build Out of Allianz Global Investors and, he was globally responsible for Allianz Insurance Asset Management coordinating Allianz Global Investors’ activities around insurance asset management. Michael’s career at Allianz started as a senior risk manager before taking over the role as head of products, initially for retail Germany, and later the whole of Europe including the institutional product offering also overseeing fund research and fund sourcing. He began his career at Dresdner Bank AG and held a series of roles before Dresdner was acquired by Allianz. Michael earned a degree in economics from the Frankfurt School of Finance.
Tiffani Potesta
Head of Distribution
Tiffani Potesta is head of distribution at Voya Investment Management. As head of distribution, she oversees all distribution aspects of Voya’s institutional, insurance and intermediary business, including setting the strategic direction across U.S. and international sales, distribution strategy, product positioning, client service, relationship management and marketing. Tiffani has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the asset management industry. Prior to joining Voya, she held several senior leadership positions at Schroders where she was most recently chief strategy officer, head of distribution. Prior to that, Tiffani was head of DCIO (defined contribution investment only) and third-party insurance channels at DWS Investments. She has also held senior roles at First Eagle Funds and Allianz Global Investors.
Barbara Reinhard, CFA
Senior Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer, Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions
Barbara Reinhard is the chief investment officer, multi-asset strategies and solutions at Voya Investment Management. She is responsible for the strategic direction and overall day-to-day portfolio management and human capital management of Voya’s multi-asset business. Prior to joining Voya, Barbara was the chief investment officer for Credit Suisse Private Bank in the Americas where she managed discretionary multi-asset portfolios and was a member of the global asset allocation and the employee pension investment committees. Prior to that, she worked at Morgan Stanley as the deputy chief investment strategist for the global wealth management division. Barbara earned a BA in economics from Trinity College and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Amir Sahibzada
Chief Risk Officer, Voya Investment Management
Amir Sahibzada is chief risk officer at Voya Investment Management, responsible for an integrated, company-wide platform that covers investment and operational risk management. Amir is a member of the management committee and reports to the chief executive officer of Voya Investment Management, maintaining a functional reporting line to the chief risk officer of Voya Financial, Inc. Previously at Voya, Amir was head of investment risk, overseeing all market, credit and counterparty risk management activities across investment portfolios. Prior to joining Voya, he was managing director and global head of risk management with D.B. Zwirn & Co. (now Fortress Investment Group), a multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to that, Amir was head of traded risk management for ABN AMRO Bank North America and its subsidiaries. He earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a BA in physics and mathematics from Wabash College in Indiana.
Christian Wilson, CFA
Head of IM Product and Strategy
Chris Wilson is head of IM product and strategy at Voya Investment Management, responsible for strategy, product development and solutions. This includes providing key insights and leadership in strategic positioning for growth, while managing IM’s evolving array of products and client solutions. Chris also serves as a partner to the Mutual Fund Board and president of the Voya Mutual Funds. Previously, Chris was Voya’s head of global client portfolio management. Prior to joining Voya, he was head of the North America fixed income client portfolio management team at AllianceBernstein, where he began his career and served in multiple roles including fixed income portfolio manager, currency trader, quantitative analyst and head of fixed income product management. Chris earned a BS in mathematics/management from LeMoyne College and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Markus Wolff
Chief Financial Officer, Voya Investment Management
Markus Wolff is managing director, chief financial officer and member of the executive leadership team at Voya Investment Management. In his role he oversees Voya Investment Management’s entire Finance function as well as the mutual fund administration team. He joined the firm following Voya’s acquisition of certain teams and associated assets from Allianz Global Investors U.S. (“AllianzGI”) business. Prior to joining Voya IM, he was heading the US business management and distribution strategy function at Allianz Global Investors. As a member of the US senior leadership team and the distribution leadership team he was responsible for overseeing all business development and change activities in Americas from a corporate and organizational perspective. In former roles at Allianz Global Investors, Markus was heading the global financial planning & analytics function, where he was responsible for the budgeting and planning process of the entire firm and leading the efforts on developing a state-of-the art executive management analytics framework. He was involved in all major corporate projects including mergers and acquisition initiatives and broader business and corporate transformation activities. Markus earned an MA in banking and finance and a BA in business administration, both from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Award-Winning Culture
One of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies® for 11th consecutive year
2023 Dow Jones Sustainability Index for 8th consecutive year
2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for 8th consecutive year
2024 Equality 100 Award: Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion for 18th consecutive year
Great Place to Work® for 8th consecutive year
2024 Disability Equality Index (DEI) for 7th consecutive year
2024 Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors can impact the investment risk and return profiles of our investments. Investing based on ESG factors may cause a strategy to take risks or forego exposures available to strategies or products that do not incorporate ESG factors, which could negatively impact performance. There is no assurance that investing based on ESG factors will be successful.
Third-party awards and/or rankings about entities within the Voya family of companies are given based upon various criteria and methodologies. Awards and/or rankings are not representative of actual client experiences or outcomes, and are not indicative of any future performance. For certain awards/rankings, Voya pays a fee to be considered. For material facts regarding an award, including but not limited to whether a fee was paid to be eligible for the award, see below.
Ethisphere World’s Most Ethical Companies: In March 2024, Voya Financial was one of 136 companies recognized by Ethisphere® as one of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies® based on performance in 2023. The World’s Most Ethical Companies assessment is based upon Ethisphere’s Ethics Quotient® framework, which offers a quantitative way to assess a company’s performance in an objective, consistent and standardized way. The information collected provides a comprehensive sampling of definitive criteria of core competencies, rather than all aspects of corporate governance, risk, sustainability, compliance and ethics. Scores are generated in five key categories and provided to all companies that participate in the process: ethics and compliance program (35%), culture of ethics (20%), environmental and societal impact (20%), governance (20%), and third-party management (5%). While Voya’s Senior Vice President of Corporate and Organizational Development sits on Ethisphere’s Equity and Social Justice Initiative Advisory Council, he plays no role in the selection process for the World’s Most Ethical Companies award, but this fact has been disclosed to the extent it may be perceived as a possible conflict of interest. There is a processing fee of $3,500 USD to participate. Voya also pays $19,500 USD a year to participate in Ethisphere’s Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (“BELA”), which provides additional resources and services to members, including benchmarking data and related Ethisphere insights and guidance. There is also a $35,000 USD licensing fee for use of the logo. “World’s Most Ethical Companies” and “Ethisphere” names and marks are registered trademarks of Ethisphere LLC.
Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America: In December 2023, Voya Financial was selected for inclusion in the 2023 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) by the S&P Dow Jones Indices. Inclusion was based on 2022 activity, and no fee was paid for consideration. Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) is the first global index to track the leading sustainability-driven companies based on an analysis of financially material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and S&P DJSI’s robust index methodology, which includes the annual S&P Global Sustainability Assessment (CSA)(link is external) to evaluate more than 11,000 companies around the world.
Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index: In 2023, Voya was accepted into the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the 8th consecutive year. Voya is one of 484 companies accepted to the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, which represents organizations from 54 industries with headquarters in 45 countries and regions. To qualify for the index, Voya disclosed details of its policies and practices with respect to how the company promotes gender equality across four separate areas – company statistics, policies, community engagement and products and services. Voya and other companies included in the 2023 Gender-Equality Index scored above a globally-established threshold, based on the extent of disclosures and the achievement of best-in-class statistics and policies.
Equality 100 Award: Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion: The Corporate Equality Index (CEI), administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices, including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBTQ community. All private sector (non-government) and for-profit employers with 500 or more full-time U.S. employees are eligible to participate. In December 2023, Voya Financial’s efforts in satisfying all of CEI’s criteria earned a score of 100 and the designation as recipient of the Equality 100 Award: Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion. The CEI rating is based on 2023 activity and no fee was paid for consideration. From 2002-2022, this designation was known as “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality”
Great Place to Work: In 2023, Voya Financial was certified as a Great Place To Work for October 2023 – October 2024. Voya Financial paid a fee to the Great Place To Work Institute to conduct certification surveys, upon which the award was based. Voya Financial earned this recertification based on ratings provided by more than 1,600 of its employees in a survey administered by the Great Place To Work® Institute.
Disability Equality Index: In June 2024, Voya Financial was recognized by Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities as a 2024 Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion, earning a spot on the Disability Equality Index® (DEI). The recognition is based on 2023 information and no fee was paid for consideration. Members of the Fortune 1000, Fortune Global 500, Am Law 200 and organizations similar in size and scope are eligible to participate in the DEI. The 2024 DEI measured culture and leadership; enterprise-wide accessibility; employment practices (benefits, recruitment, employment, education, retention and advancement, and accommodations); community engagement; and supplier diversity. By receiving a score of 80 or higher (on scale of zero to 100), companies qualify as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion. While Voya’s Senior Vice President of Social Impact and Inclusion sits on Disability:IN’s Board of Directors, she plays no role in the selection process for this recognition, but this fact has been disclosed to the extent it may be perceived as a possible conflict of interest.
Pension & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management: In 2024, Voya Investment Management (Voya IM) was named to Pension & Investments’ 2024 Best Places to Work in Money Management list. To participate, a firm has to have at least 20 employees in the U.S., have at least $100 million of discretionary, institutional assets under management or advisement and be in business for at least one year. Firms that participated are required to complete a two-step process conducted by Workforce Research Group in June-August 2024 on behalf of P&I. First, a questionnaire was completed by the firm’s HR department to capture information on firm policies, practices, benefits and demographics. Second, employees completed a survey and two open-ended questions that asked about being an employee at Voya—including engagement and satisfaction, work environment, career development and remuneration. Employee responses accounted for 75% of the total company score and employer responses accounted for 25%. Workforce Research examined the data to finalize rankings. Voya IM did not pay a fee to be considered, but does pay a $4,950 fee for use of the award logo.
* Voya IM assets of $341 billion, as reported in Voya Financial SEC filings, represent revenue generating assets for which Voya IM has full discretionary investment management responsibility. Voya IM assets of $339 billion are calculated on a market value basis for all accounts. As of 9/30/24.
** Voya Investment Management is the 48th largest institutional investment manager (out of 411 firms surveyed), based on worldwide institutional assets under management, on Pensions & Investments’ Top Money Managers list published June 2024. This ranking represents assets under management as of December 31, 2023. Participation in the P&I ranking is voluntary and open to firms that manage assets for U.S. institutional tax-exempt clients. Managers self-report their data via a survey. P&I sends the survey to previously identified managers and to any new managers asking to participate in the survey/ranking. No fee was paid for consideration.