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The Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund seeks to maximise total return. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in local currency-denominated fixed income transferable securities issued by governments and agencies of, and companies domiciled or exercising the predominant part of their economic activity in, emerging markets. The full spectrum of available securities, including non-investment grade, may be utilised. Currency exposure is flexibly managed.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Michal Wozniak | Portfolio Manager | 2015 | Now |
Biography | Michal Wozniak, CFA, Director and Portfolio Manager in BlackRock’s Emerging Markets Debt Team since November 2013; Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Markets Debt Team at Lombard Odier Investment Managers from 2011 to 2013; Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Markets Debt Team at JPMorgan Asset Management from 2009 to 2011; Portfolio Manager for the Emerging Markets Debt Team at Fortis Investments from 2007 to 2009. From 2002 until 2007 he was working in Credit Suisse Asset Management in Warsaw, initially as a portfolio manager and later heading the fixed income team. Michal started his professional career in 2000 as an equity analyst in ABN AMRO Asset Management. Mr. Wozniak earned a Masters in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics in 2001. | ||
Sergio Trigo Paz | Managing Director | 2012 | Now |
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. | ||
Laurent Develay | Portfolio Manager | 2012 | Now |
Biography | Laurent Develay, Director, is a portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team within BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. He has responsibility for managing emerging market currencies and local debt investments. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2012, Mr. Develay was a portfolio manager in the Emerging Markets Debt team at Fischer Francis Trees & Watts (FFTW, a BNP Paribas Investment Partner) with an alpha focus on EM currencies and regional research coverage of Latin America. Prior to the merger between BNP Paribas and Fortis, Mr. Develay was head of the currency and commodity trading team at Fortis Investments for five years in Paris and London with a strong focus on emerging markets currencies. Previously, Mr. Develay served as a currency trader at AXA Investment Managers where he started his career in 1999. Mr. Develay earned Master in Finance in 1996 from the E.S.L.S.C.A. in Paris and a Certificate in Finance from UC Berkeley Extension in 1998. | ||
Raphael Marechal | Director | 2012 | 2015 |
Biography | Raphael Marechal, Director, is a portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Debt team within BlackRock Fundamental Fixed Income. He has responsibility for managing local rates strategies. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2012, Mr. Marechal was a portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Debt team at Fischer Francis Trees and Watts - FFTW (wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas) for three years where he was responsible for managing Eastern European and local rates strategies. Prior to the merger between BNP Paribas and Fortis, Mr. Marechal was an emerging markets debt portfolio manager for Fortis Investments for eight years. Mr. Marechal began his career as a Fund Manager in Emerging Fixed Income for BAREP (subsidiary of Societe Generale) in Paris at the end of 1996. Mr. Marechal earned an engineering degree from ENSIMAG (specialisation in Finance and Mathematics), and a DEA in finance from the University of Grenoble in 1995 and 1996, respectively. | ||
Imran Hussain | Director | 2007 | 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 | 2007 | 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. | ||
Alex Smitten | Member | 2000 | 2007 |
Biography | Alexander joined Cazenove in 2000 and is a member of the fixed income team and in charge of establishing the UK economic outlook and investment policy for segregated and pooled gilt portfolios. He manages the Cazenove Sterling Bond Fund and The Income Trust for Charities, a UK authorised Common Investment Fund. While at Intercapital, Alex set up the gilt agency broking desk. With a degree in Banking and International Finance from the City University he has 19 years of investment experience. |
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