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8.10 -0.02    -0.25%
27/12 - Closed. Currency in USD
Type:  Fund
Market:  United States
Issuer:  BlackRock
Asset Class:  Bond
  • Morningstar Rating:
  • Total Assets: 2.71B
BlackRock Core Bond Instl 8.10 -0.02 -0.25%

Blackrock Core Bond Portfolio Institutional Shares Overview

 
On this page you'll find an in-depth profile of Blackrock Core Bond Portfolio Institutional Shares. Learn about the key management, total assets, investment strategy and contact information of BFMCX among other information.
Category

Intermediate-Term Bond

Total Assets

2.71B

Expenses

0.43%

Inception Date

33947

Investment Strategy

The investment seeks to realize a total return that exceeds that of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its assets in bonds and maintains an average portfolio duration that is within ±20% of the duration of the benchmark. The management team selects bonds from several sectors including: U.S. treasuries and agency securities, commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, CMOs, asset-backed securities and corporate bonds. The fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in assets of foreign issuers, of which 10% (as a percentage of the fund's assets) may be invested in emerging markets issuers.

Contact Information

Address 12 Throgmorton Avenue
London,RI EC2N 2DL
United Kingdom
Phone 020 7743 3000

Top Executives

Name Title Since Until
Chi Chen Director 2022 Now
Biography Managing Director, is a Portfolio Manager in BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Investment Group, focusing on US multi-sector fixed income mandates and global government bond mandates. She is co-manager of BlackRock's Total Return Fund, Core Bond Fund, US Dollar Bond Fund, and Global Government Bond Fund. Ms. Chen focuses on macro investment strategies and specializes in interest rates investment. She leads research efforts for US rates in the Global Fixed Income platform. In addition, she is actively involved in the platform's top-down process including regime identification, asset allocation, macro positioning, and portfolio construction. Previously, she was a macro researcher on the Economics team at BlackRock. Ms. Chen joined BlackRock as an analyst in the Global Fixed Income Investment Group. She earned a BA degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and Statistics from Mount Holyoke College.
David Rogal Portfolio Manager 2017 Now
Biography David Rogal, Managing Director, is a member of the Multi-Sector Mutual Fund team within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. He is a portfolio manager of BlackRock's Core Bond, Inflation Protected, Total Return, and Strategic Income Opportunities Funds. Mr. Rogal focuses on broad macro positioning, with specialties in interest rates, inflation, and volatility trading. Mr. Rogal joined Fixed Income in 2009. Previously, he was a member of BlackRock's Multi Asset Strategies group, where he developed quantitative models and advised insurance companies, pension funds, and banks on asset-allocati
Akiva Dickstein Co-Portfolio Manager 2016 Now
Biography Akiva Dickstein, Managing Director, is Head of Customized Multi-Sector Portfolios and co-Head of Global Inflation Linked Portfolios within BlackRock's Fundamental Fixed Income (FFI) group, and a member of the Fundamental Fixed Income executive team. He is also a portfolio manager of BlackRock's Core Bond Fund. Prior to taking on his current responsibilities, Mr. Dickstein was the lead portfolio manager on BlackRock's mortgage portfolios. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Dickstein spent eight years at Merrill Lynch, where he served as Managing Director and head of the U.S. Rates & Structured Credit Research Group. He was responsible for the team that produced MBS, ABS, CMBS, Treasuries, swaps, and interest rate derivatives research. Mr. Dickstein's publications on MBS strategy included the weekly Mortgage Investor as well as numerous lengthier articles on topics such as optimal loan modifications, the valuation of credit-sensitive MBS and ABS, and the pricing of mortgage derivatives, options, and pass-throughs. In addition, he developed Merrill's prepayment models for fixed rate and hybrid MBS. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Dickstein was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as a Senior Vice President in Mortgage Derivatives Trading. In this role, he traded mortgage derivatives and developed Lehman's credit default model. He joined Lehman as a mortgage and asset-backed securities analyst and was named to Institutional Investor's All American Fixed Income Research Team in pass-throughs, non-agency mortgages, and asset-backed securities. Mr. Dickstein earned a BA degree in economics, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1990, and an MA degree in physics from Princeton University in 1993.
Rick Rieder CIO (Chief Investment Officer) 2010 Now
Biography Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team. Responsible for roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC) and its GEC Investments Sub-Committee. He is also a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock 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 and member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He has been awarded the 2023 Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar, was nominated for Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar in 2021, was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013. Four of the funds Mr. Rieder manages (Strategic Income Opportunities, Fixed Income Global Opportunities, Total Return, and Strategic Global Bond) have been awarded Gold Medals by Morningstar. 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 Goizueta Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the Goizueta Business School's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program, Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation, and Trustee for the US Olympic Foundation.
Bob Miller Managing Director 2011 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
Eric Pellicciaro Managing Director 2010 2012
Biography Pellicciaro is a managing director of and portfolio manager with BlackRock, Inc. and a member of the investment strategy group and the lead mortgage sector specialist. He started his career in the financial modeling group at BlackRock in 1996, and joined the fixed income portfolio management group in 1999.
Matthew Marra Managing Director 2006 2012
Biography Deputy Head of Retail and Mutual Fund Products of BlackRock, Inc. and Co-head of Mutual Fund Multi Sector Portfolios since 2010; Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. since 2006; Director of BlackRock, Inc. from 2002 to 2005.
Curtis Y. Arledge CIO (Chief Investment Officer) 2008 2010
Biography Curtis Arledge is the Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, within BlackRock’s Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group since 2010, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, is co-head of US Fixed Income within BlackRock's Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. Mr. Arledge is a member of BlackRock's Leadership Committee. Prior to rejoining BlackRock in 2008, Mr. Arledge was with Wachovia Corporation for 12 years, most recently as Global Head of the Fixed Income Division and a member of the Corporate and Investment Bank's (CIB) Executive and CIB Risk/Return Committees. He had oversight for various business lines in the United States, Europe and Asia, including Leveraged Finance, Investment Grade, Global Rates, Structured Products, Corporate Loan and Commercial Real Estate Portfolios and Financial Institutions Investment Banking. Before serving in this role, Mr. Arledge was head of Fixed Income Trading and, prior to that, head of Structured Products Trading. He joined Wachovia's proprietary trading desk in 1996. Mr. Arledge was a founding member of Mariner Investment Group in 1993, involved in fixed income arbitrage trading. From 1988 to 1993, he was a fixed income portfolio manager with BlackRock. He began his career as an Analyst with Salomon Brothers in 1987.
Andrew J. Phillips Managing Director 2006 2010
Biography Andrew J. Phillips, Managing Director and fixed income portfolio manager, is a member of the Investment Strategy Group and the Fixed Income Operating Committee. He is also Chairman of the monthly Account Review Meeting, which examines performance, compliance, and operations for all client portfolios. Prior to joining BlackRock in 1991, Mr. Phillips was a portfolio manager at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Scott M. Amero Vice Chairman 1999 2010
Biography Scott Amero is Vice Chairman of BlackRock since 2007; Global Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income; Managing Director of BlackRock since 1990.
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