Charlette Golder

Charlette Golder is a Portfolio Manager at Red Cedar Investment Management, LLC, located in Grand Rapids, MI. In this role, she is responsible for research, portfolio construction, and day-to-day management of Red Cedar’s income-focused strategies, specializing in fixed income products and tax-advantaged preferred securities. She plays a key part in the firm’s approach to rigorous fundamental analysis across the capital structure to identify undervalued income-producing securities and maximize after-tax yield for institutional clients.

Golder's investment expertise is centered on fixed income asset classes, including traditional preferred securities, hybrid preferred securities, and related credit markets with a particular emphasis on strategies that benefit from qualified dividend income and dividends-received deduction tax advantages. She has contributed to the management of products such as the RCIM Tax-Advantaged Preferred and Income Securities ETF and collaborates closely with fellow portfolio managers on these sector-specific mandates.

Before her current role, Charlette served as an Investment Analyst at Red Cedar Investment Management from 2020, and previously honed her analytical skills as a Business Intelligence Analyst Intern at Shefit. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics with actuarial emphasis from Grand Valley State University, equipping her with a strong quantitative and modeling foundation that informs her portfolio management and security selection processes.