Matt Shulkin is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, and a member of the High Yield team at Pioneer Investments, which was formerly known as Amundi US, and was acquired by Victory Capital in 2025. He is a Portfolio Manager on all of the high yield accounts. In addition, he contributes to the selection of US high yield investments for multi-sector strategies.

Prior to joining Pioneer Investments, Matt spent five years as a high yield analyst covering a wide variety of sectors at MAST Capital Management, a credit hedge fund in Boston. Before MAST, Matt was the sole member of the US credit operation for Tisbury Capital, a London-based hedge fund. At Tisbury, in coordination with the credit team in London, he invested in distressed and high-yield corporate bonds, bank loans and asset-backed securities. Prior to Tisbury, Matt was a Vice President as part of Putnam Investments’ high yield analyst team. In addition to his high yield sector coverage at Putnam, Matt was named the group’s primary distressed analyst in January 2006. Prior to Putnam, Matt worked as a high yield analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, as part of a five-person team managing a fund. He started his career as a junior research analyst on the high yield sales and trading desk at CIBC World Markets in New York City, where he worked from 1996 through 1999.

Matt earned his B.A. from Cornell University in 1996, and his M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. He is a CFA® Charterholder.