Advisors Asset names Philip Villaluz head of municipal strategy

By Marisa Wong

Milwaukee, Sept. 30 – Advisors Asset Management, Inc. announced that Philip Villaluz has joined the firm as managing director of institutional sales, effective Aug. 24.

Villaluz will be part of the firm’s new institutional sales and trading division headquartered in New York, and will serve as head of municipal strategy, driving institutional municipal bond sales.

He will report to Michael Foggia, who joined the firm along with Victor Perretti, Jr. as executive vice president in May.

Villaluz will be part of the company’s larger growth strategy to broaden its municipal bond research and distribution capabilities. The new institutional sales division created in May seeks to create synergies across Advisors Asset Management’s client by bringing the same investment products and services to institutional clients.

“Philip’s municipal bond background will bolster our institutional division, we’re excited he’s joining our institutional team in Manhattan,” said Scott Colyer, CEO and chief investment officer, in a news release.

Villaluz has over 18 years of investment experience. He was an institutional research analyst and senior credit officer for Prudential Asset Management, Salomon Smith Barney and most recently, Merrill Lynch.

Villaluz is a member of the 2008 Institutional Investors All-America Research Team in Municipals. For four consecutive years he received Smith’s Research All-Star Analysts award in the category of transportation revenue bonds. He is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.

Based in Monument, Colo., Advisors Asset provides investment services for financial professionals.

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