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The Fund seeks to maximise total return. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in the fixed income transferable securities of governments and agencies of, and companies domiciled or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in, emerging markets. The Fund may invest in the full spectrum of available securities, including non-investment grade. Currency exposure is flexibly managed.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Amer Bisat | Managing Director | 2022 | Now |
Biography | Amer Bisat, PhD., Managing Director, is Head of Emerging Markets (EM) Fixed Income and a member of the Fundamental-GFI Executive Committee. In this role, he oversees the team managing the firm's EM portfolios across hard currency, local and corporate debt instruments. Mr. Bisat's service with the firm dates back to 2013. Prior to BlackRock, he was a partner in two macro hedge funds (Traxis and Rubicon) and held portfolio management responsibilities at Morgan Stanley and UBS. Between 1991 and 1998, he was a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund where he helped negotiate high profile programs with Russia, Ukraine and Egypt. Mr. Bisat taught graduate level economics courses at Columbia University, co-authored a book on globalization, and academic and policy papers on growth and financial sector development. He is a trustee of a number of cultural and art institutions, sits on the Advisory Council of the Carnegie Middle East Center and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Bisat earned a BA in economics from the American University of Beirut and a PhD. in economics and finance from Columbia University. | ||
Michel Aubenas | Managing Director | 2012 | Now |
Biography | Michel Aubenas, CFA, is a Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2016, Head of EM Hard Currency Sovereign Debt and Director from 2012 to 2015 and portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Debt team within BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. He has responsibilities for managing sovereign debt strategies and local rates. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2012, Mr Aubenas was a portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Debt team at Fischer Francis Trees and Watts (FFTW, part of the BNP-Paribas group) for two years, where he was managing sovereign debt strategies and shared regional coverage of Eastern Europe and frontier markets. At FFTW, Michel had responsibility for supervising the team's innovative investment process which he helped enhance. Prior to that, Mr Aubenas worked as an EM portfolio manager at Caisse de Depots in Canada, Fortis Investments in London, and Axa Investment Managers in France. He has cross-assets investment experience in external debt (sovereign and quasi-sovereign), local rates and currencies. Michel studied at Dauphine University in Paris, where he earned a Masters in Banking and Finance in 1999, and an MSc in Economics and a BSc in Applied Mathematics in 1998. | ||
Sergio Trigo Paz | Managing Director | 2012 | 2022 |
Biography | Sergio Trigo Paz, Managing Director, is Head of BlackRock's Emerging Markets Fixed Income. Prior to Joining BlackRock in 2012, he was CIO of Emerging Market Fixed Income at BNP Paribas Investment Partners. From 2004 to 2008, he managed a special situations and event driven EM hedge fund and was also responsible for total and absolute return EM strategies at Fortis Investments. In his early career from 1993 to 2004 he developed extensive experience in emerging markets debt as a proprietary and distressed trader and as a market maker. Sergio graduated with an MSc in Economics, an MSc in Finance and an MPhil in Management from Paris Sorbonne University in 1993. | ||
Christopher (Chris) Kelly | Senior Vice President | 2012 | 2013 |
Biography | Mr. Kelly has been a Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. since January 2016 and a Portfolio Manager of the firm and Co-Head of the Global Debt Team since March 2015. He was a Vice President of the firm from March 2015 through January 2016. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds, Mr. Kelly was at BlackRock Inc., where he was Deputy Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income from June 2012 to January 2015. Mr. Kelly was also a portfolio manager and Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Emerging Markets at Fisher Francis Trees and Watts, a BNP Paribas Investment Partner, from February 2008 to April 2012. Chris holds a B.A. from Macalester College and a Masters in international affairs from Columbia University. He is also a CFA charterholder. | ||
Imran Hussain | Director | 2004 | 2012 |
Biography | Mr. Hussain, Director and portfolio manager, is a member of the Investment Strategy Group. Mr. Hussain's primary responsibility is developing and implementing strategies in the non-dollar and emerging markets sectors of the fixed income markets. He also advises the non-US equity team on macroeconomic issues. Prior to joining BlackRock in 1998, Mr. Hussain was responsible for structuring and trading proprietary positions in emerging market securities with Cargill Financial Services International. | ||
Andrew Gordon | Managing Director | 2004 | 2011 |
Biography | Andrew Gordon, Managing Director and portfolio manager, is head of BlackRock's global bond team within the Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group.Before joining BlackRock in 1996, Andrew developed strategies for a small relative value global fixed income hedge fund, having previously worked for CS First Boston and in the International Research and Open Market Operations departments of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. | ||
Romualdo Roldan | Manager | 2007 | 2007 |
Biography | Romualdo Roldan, PhD, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, is a member of BlackRock's Global Allocation team. Mr. Roldan's service with the firm dates back to 1998, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. At MLIM, he was a portfolio manager for various global portfolios, and was Head of Emerging Market Debt. Mr. Roldan joined the Global Allocation team in July of 2006. He has been a Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2008. Prior to joining MLIM in 1998, he was a senior vice president at Santander Investments, and earlier was a global economic analyst at JP Morgan Chase. Mr. Roldan began his investment career at Chase Econometrics, where he founded and managed the Emerging Markets Research Group. Mr. Roldan earned a BA degree in economics from the University of Chile in 1973, and a Ph.D in economics and econometrics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. |
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