Putnam High Income Securities Fund
Daniel Lahrman, CFA, currently serves as VP/Senior Portfolio Consultant at Franklin Templeton since January 2024. Prior to this role, Daniel Lahrman accumulated extensive experience at Putnam Investments, where responsibilities included Senior Investment Director, Investment Director, Investment Product Analyst, and Sr. Regional Marketing Associate, starting in June 2011. Daniel Lahrman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with a focus on Financial Economics, from Vanderbilt University, obtained between 2007 and 2011, and is a CFA Charterholder from the CFA Institute.
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.