Please try another search
The Fund seeks to maximise total return. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in fixed income transferable securities denominated in various currencies issued by governments, agencies and companies worldwide. The full spectrum of available securities, including non-investment grade, may be utilised. Currency exposure is flexibly managed.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
---|---|---|---|
Russell Brownback | Managing Director | 2022 | Now |
Biography | Managing Director, is Head of Global Macro Positioning for Fixed-Income and a member of the Global Fixed-Income Executive Committee. He is a portfolio manager for unconstrained multi-sector and global fixed-income mandates. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Brownback was a Senior Partner with R3 Capital Partners. From 1992 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as a Managing Director and proprietary trader/portfolio manager for the Global Principal Strategies team. Previously, he was the head of the firm's Corporate and Emerging Markets bond trading desks. Mr. Brownback earned a BA in Economics from Hobart College and an Master in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has been an adjunct professor for both graduate and undergraduate studies at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Business. | ||
Aidan Doyle | - | 2020 | Now |
Biography | CFA, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager within the Global Bond Team. He is co-lead manager for the BGF World Bond Fund, the BGF Global Government Bond Fund, the BGF Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund, BGF Sustainable Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund, and the BGF US Dollar Bond Fund. Mr. Doyle began his career at BlackRock in 2010 when he joined the Global Bond Team as a portfolio manager. He is responsible for developing macro directional and relative value investment strategies and managing the team's global aggregate and global government bond portfolios. Mr Doyle. has a MSc degree in Finance from the Imperial College London, with a focus on fixed income and derivatives. He earned a BA degree in Economics, with honors, from Trinity College Dublin, with a focus on financial economics. | ||
Rick Rieder | CIO (Chief Investment Officer) | 2013 | Now |
Biography | Managing Director, is BlackRock's Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, and Co-head of BlackRock's Global Fixed Income platform, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee and Chairman of the BlackRock firm-wide Investment Council. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Rieder is currently a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013, and was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014. From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta. Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Business School, and the University's Investment Committee and is the Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the business school's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program. Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman of the Board of North Star Academy's eleven Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey and is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. He is a Trustee for the US Olympic Committee, and on the board of advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery. He serves on the National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation and on the board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation. | ||
Bob Miller | Managing Director | 2013 | 2023 |
Biography | Bob Miller, Managing Director, is head of Americas Fundamental Fixed Income within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income group and a member of the Global Fixed Income Executive Committee. He is a portfolio manager of BlackRock's Core Bond, Total Return, and Strategic Income Opportunities Funds. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Mr. Miller was a co-founder and partner at the Round Table Investment Management Company, a multi-strategy, research-based investment company, where he managed a global macro strategy. Previously, Mr. Miller spent 20 years at Bank of America, where he served in a variety | ||
Andreas Doerrenhaus | - | 2017 | 2020 |
Scott Thiel | Managing Director | 2013 | 2018 |
Biography | Scott Thiel, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, Fundamental Portfolios, and head of the European and Non-US Fixed Income Group. He is a member of the Fixed Income Executive Committee and the EMEA Executive Committee. In addition, he is a lead portfolio manager of Euro portfolios. Mr. Thiel is a member of BlackRock's Leadership Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2002, Mr. Thiel was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co. During his thirteen years there, he was responsible for developing strategies in both US and international interest rate and derivative markets for institutional money managers. Mr. Thiel earned a BA degree in American history from Princeton University in 1987. | ||
Jack Hattem | Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Member | 2013 | 2013 |
Biography | Jack Hattem, CFA, Managing Director, is the Deputy Lead Portfolio Manager of The BlackRock Obsidian Fund. He began his investment career as an analyst in BlackRock's Portfolio Analytics Group in 2000, where he was responsible for analytics and risk management for BlackRock's alternative investment products. In 2003, Mr. Hattem joined BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. Mr. Hattem earned a BA degree, cum laude, in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. | ||
Yoni Saposh | Director | 2013 | 2013 |
Biography | Yoni Saposh, Director, is a portfolio manager of The BlackRock Obsidian Fund, specializing in global interest rate and currency markets. Previously, Mr. Saposh was a portfolio manager on the BlackRock Global Bond Team from 2004 to 2011. His service with the firm dates back to 2001, when he joined as an analyst in BlackRock's Portfolio Analytics Group, where he was responsible for analytics and risk management for BlackRock's alternative investment products. Mr. Saposh earned a BS degree, cum laude, in economics with a concentration in finance and decision-making processes, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001. | ||
Stuart Spodek | Managing Director | 2007 | 2013 |
Biography | Stuart Spodek, Managing Director and portfolio manager, is co-head of US Fixed Income within BlackRock's Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. He is responsible for managing fixed income portfolios, with a sector emphasis on global government bonds, derivative instruments, and implementing yield curve strategy across global portfolios. Mr. Spodek joined BlackRock in 1993 as an analyst in BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group and became a portfolio manager in 1995. | ||
Scott M. Amero | Vice Chairman | 2007 | 2012 |
Biography | Scott Amero is Vice Chairman of BlackRock since 2007; Global Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income; Managing Director of BlackRock since 1990. |
Are you sure you want to block %USER_NAME%?
By doing so, you and %USER_NAME% will not be able to see any of each other's Investing.com's posts.
%USER_NAME% was successfully added to your Block List
Since you’ve just unblocked this person, you must wait 48 hours before renewing the block.
I feel that this comment is:
Thank You!
Your report has been sent to our moderators for review