Michael Wolverton is co-portfolio manager of Ivy Energy Fund and Ivy VIP Energy, and of Ivy Natural Resources Fund and Ivy VIP Natural Resources. He was named co-portfolio manager of the Energy and Natural Resources strategies in 2016.

He had been assistant portfolio manager on those strategies since 2013. He has been co-portfolio manager of Ivy Focused Energy NextShares, an exchange-traded managed fund, since inception in 2016.

Mr. Wolverton joined Waddell & Reed in 2005 as an equity investment analyst. He was appointed assistant vice president in 2012 and vice president in 2017. His research responsibilities are concentrated in energy equipment and services, and oil, gas and consumable fuels.

From 2003 through 2005 Mr. Wolverton was affiliated with the MBA Investment Fund, LLC as a portfolio manager. In this role, he and his team were responsible for managing three equity and fixed income portfolios totaling $12 million. He held a summer intern position with Waddell & Reed in 2004.

Mr. Wolverton graduated from William Jewell College in 1997 with a BS in Accounting. He earned an MBA with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business in 2005.

Mr. Wolverton is a CFA charterholder. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Kansas City.