Chris Parker is co-portfolio manager of Ivy Global Equity Income Fund and Ivy VIP Global Equity Income. He was portfolio manager since 2014 of Ivy Dividend Opportunities Fund and Ivy VIP Dividend Opportunities; in 2018, Ivy Dividend Opportunities Fund merged into the Ivy Global Equity Income Fund and Ivy VIP Dividend Opportunities’ name and investment strategy changed to Ivy VIP Global Equity Income.

He is co-portfolio manager of the Global Equity Income Strategy allocation sleeve of Ivy Apollo Multi-Asset Income Fund since 2018.

Mr. Parker joined the organization in 2008 as an equity investment analyst. He was named assistant portfolio manager of Ivy and Ivy VIP Value Funds and of Ivy and Ivy VIP Small Cap Core Funds in 2010. He was portfolio manager of Ivy and Ivy VIP Small Cap Core Funds from 2011 to 2014. He was appointed assistant vice president in 2010, vice president in 2011 and senior vice president in 2019.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Parker was a vice president in Equity Research at Citigroup Asset Management.

Mr. Parker graduated magna cum laude from Boston College, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, with a BS in Finance in 1995. He earned an MBA with distinction, concentrations in Finance and Management/Strategy, from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 2001. While at Kellogg, he was an F.C. Austin Scholar.Mr. Parker is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.