Summary List Placement Growing up with a passion for research and debate, Kent Insley had planned for a career in politics and law. But two college internships in Washington D.C. and a lot of devouring of the financial periodicals later, he pivoted to a career in investment management, starting as a management trainee at Boston-based MFS Investment Management and then working his way up to becoming a fixed-income specialist at New York-based hedge fund Millennium Partners.