Putnam High Income Securities Fund
Connie Corey possesses extensive experience in financial reporting and accounting, currently serving as a Financial Reporting Manager at Putnam Investments since April 1997. Prior roles include Financial Reporting Manager at Fidelity Investments, Financial Reporting Supervisor at Mellon Capital, and Audit Assurance Senior at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Early career experience includes a Payroll Specialist position at Tello's Retail and service as a Signal Intelligence Analyst in the United States Army. Connie Corey's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, language skills in Czech Slovak were developed at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.
Putnam High Income Securities Fund
High Income Securities Fund, formerly Putnam High Income Securities Fund, is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund provides high current income as a primary objective and capital appreciation as a secondary objective. The Fund pursues its objective by investing in convertible bonds and convertible preferred stocks. The Fund also invests in high-yielding non-convertible securities with the potential for capital appreciation. It is a business trust. The Fund provides investment services across a range of equity, fixed income, absolute return and alternative strategies. The Fund invests in various industries, such as technology, electronics, financials, banking, healthcare, communication services, pharmaceuticals, food, telecommunications and medical technology. Putnam Investment Management, LLC is the investment manager of the Fund. Putnam Investments Limited is the investment sub-advisor of the Fund.