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The investment seeks total return as is consistent with preservation of capital. The fund will invest in a combination of fixed-income securities, including, but not limited to: high yield securities, international securities, emerging markets debt and mortgages. It may invest significantly in non-investment grade bonds (high yield or junk bonds). It may invest up to 15% of its net assets in collateralized debt obligations, of which 10% (as a percentage of the fund's net assets) may be in collateralized loan obligations.
| Name | Title | Since | Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russ Brownback | Managing Director | 2022 | Now |
| Biography | Russ Brownback has been Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc. from 2009 to 2012 and from 2017 to present; Senior Partner with R3 Capital Partners from 2008 to 2009; Managing Director of Lehman Brothers from 1992 to 2008. | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rick Rieder | CIO (Chief Investment Officer) | 2010 | Now |
| Biography | Rick Rieder, 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 | 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 | 2010 | 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) | 2010 | 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. | ||
| Jeffrey Cucunato | Managing Director | 2008 | 2010 |
| Biography | Jeffrey Cucunato, Managing Director, is a member of the US Bonds Portfolio Team within BlackRock's Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. He is the lead manager for the Investment Grade Corporates and Long Duration Portfolio Team. Prior to joining the corporate bond team, Mr. Cucunato focused on interest rate products, including government and agency securities. He was also involved in the day-to-day management of BlackRock's inflation-linked bond portfolios. Mr. Cucunato joined the Portfolio Management Group in 1997. He began his career at BlackRock in 1995 as an analyst in the Account Management Group, working with international clients and alternative investments. | ||
| Stuart Spodek | Managing Director | 2008 | 2010 |
| 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. | ||
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