Reema Agarwal, CFA

Reema Agarwal is the senior vice president and director of Floating Rate Debt for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income - Bank Loans in San Mateo, California, United States. Ms. Agarwal is responsible for overseeing floating rate bank loan teams across the full spectrum of the bank loan market. She also manages several bank loan mutual funds for retail, institutional, and multi strategy clients.

Ms. Agarwal has over 27 years of experience in the financial services industry. She is a member of the Fixed Income Research and Strategy Team (FIRST), which sets broad fixed income strategy at Franklin Templeton.

Prior to her current role, Ms. Agarwal was the director of research for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income - Floating Rate Debt from 2014 to 2018. During her tenure, Ms. Agarwal has covered several sectors including: paper/packaging, chemicals, capital equipment, beverage, food, tobacco, consumer goods, high tech, publishing, metals and mining, retail, and business services. She previously was with FleetBoston Financial and with ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Ms. Agarwal joined Franklin Templeton in 2004 as a research analyst.

Ms. Agarwal holds a bachelor of arts in business from Delhi University, and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of San Francisco (CFASF).