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The Portfolio seeks to increase the value of your investment over time through total return, using a combination of income and capital growth, while seeking lower volatility than the global high yield bond markets (as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays Global High Yield Corporate Bond Index). Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio typically invests at least 80% of its assets in debt securities that are rated below investment grade. These securities may be from issuers anywhere in the world, including Emerging Markets. The Portfolio may invest in, or be exposed to, the following asset classes up to the percentages of assets indicated: structured products such as asset- and mortgage-backed securities (ABSs/MBSs) and collateralised debt obligations: 20% and debt securities rated Caa1/CCC+/CCC or lower: 10%. The Portfolio’s exposure to USD is at least 90%.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Ashish C. Shah | CO-CIO | 2012 | Now |
Biography | Mr. Shah is Co-Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Global Head of Corporate Credit and Head of the Cross-Sector Strategy within Fixed Income. Mr. Shah joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. in 2018. Mr. Shah was previously at AllianceBernstein from 2010 to 2018, where he was most recently the Head of Fixed Income and Chief Investment Officer of Global Credit. Prior to AB, he was a managing director and head of Global Credit Strategy at Barclays Capital (2008-2010). From 2003 to 2008, Shah was the head of Credit Strategy at Lehman Brothers. | ||
John P. Denfeld | Vice President | 2011 | Now |
Biography | "Senior Portfolio Manager—Liquid Markets Jon P. Denfeld joined AllianceBernstein in 2008 as a portfolio manager within the Liquid Markets team. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior US portfolio manager at UBS from 2006 to 2007. At UBS, Denfeld managed portfolios of asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities and synthetics throughout the UBS global investment platform. Previously, he managed residential mortgage-related assets for 13 years for Shay Assets Management, a fixed-income boutique in Chicago. Denfeld earned a BA from Fairfield University. He is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York " | ||
Gershon M. Distenfeld | Senior Vice President | 2011 | Now |
Biography | Gershon M. Distenfeld is a Senior Vice President and Director of Credit at AB, responsible for overseeing the investment strategy and management of all investment-grade and high-yield corporate bond portfolios and associated portfolio-management teams and Co-Head of Fixed Income. Strategies under his purview span the credit and risk spectrum, from short-duration investment-grade corporate bond portfolios to regional and global high-yield portfolios, encompassing a range of investment approaches, objectives and alpha targets, from income-oriented buy-and-hold strategies to active multi-sector total return strategies, and including both publicly traded securities and private placements in developed and emerging markets. Distenfeld is also a Partner of the firm. He co-manages AB’s multiple-award-winning High Income Fund, named “Best Fund over 10 Years” by Lipper from 2012 to 2015, and the multiple-award-winning Global High Yield and American Income portfolios, flagship fixed-income funds on the firm’s Luxembourg-domiciled fund platform for non-US investors. Distenfeld also designed and is one of the lead portfolio managers for AB’s Multi-Sector Credit Strategy, which invests across investment-grade and high-yield credit sectors globally. He is the author of a number of published papers, including one on high-yield bonds being attractive substitutes for equities and another on the often-misunderstood differences between high-yield bonds and loans. His blog “High Yield Won’t Bubble Over” (January 2013) is one of AB’s all-time most-read blogs. Distenfeld joined AB in 1998 as a fixed-income business analyst, and served as a high-yield trader (1999–2002) and high-yield portfolio manager (2002–2006) before being named director of High Yield in 2006. He began his career as an operations analyst supporting Emerging Markets Debt at Lehman Brothers. Distenfeld holds a BS in finance from the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, and is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York | ||
Douglas J. Peebles | Senior Vice President | 2011 | Now |
Biography | Douglas J. Peebles is the Chief Investment Officer of AB Fixed Income and a Partner of the firm. As CIO, he is also Co-Chairman of the Interest Rates and Currencies Research Review team. Since joining AB in 1987, Peebles has held several leadership positions, including director of Global Fixed Income (1997–2004), co-head of AB Fixed Income (2004–2008) and Head of Fixed Income (2008–2016). He holds a BA from Muhlenberg College and an MBA from Rutgers University. Location: New York Mr. Peebles is expected to retire from the AllianceBernstein L.P. effective December 30, 2020. | ||
Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky | Senior Vice President | 2011 | Now |
Biography | Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky, CFA Portfolio Manager—Credit Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky is a Senior Vice President and Credit Portfolio Manager, focusing primarily on the Low Volatility High Yield Strategy and the Short Duration High Yield Fund on the Luxembourg-domiciled fund platform, designed for non-US investors. He is a member of the Credit and High Yield fixed-income portfolio-management teams, and a member of the internal Credit Research Review Committee, the primary investment policy and decision-making committee for all AB’s credit-related portfolios. Rudolph-Shabinsky joined the firm in 1992 as a portfolio manager, and managed the Stable Value and Inflation-Linked Bond strategies. He has held other leadership posts at the firm, including head of Product Development and head of Product Management. Rudolph-Shabinsky has also authored or co-authored a number of papers, including “Beyond Interest Rate Anticipation: Strategies for Adding Value in Fixed Income” (2000) and “Assigning a Duration to Inflation-Protected Bonds” (1999), both published in the Financial Analysts Journal. He also co-wrote “Managed Synthetics,” published in The Handbook of Stable Value Investments (1998), and “LDI: Reducing Downside Risk with Global Bonds” (2012), published in The Journal of Investing. Rudolph-Shabinsky has written many blogs highlighting the risks in bank loans and in high-yield CCC-rated bonds. He holds a BA in economics and Soviet/East European studies from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia University, and is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York |
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