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The Portfolio seeks to increase the value of investment over time through total return, using a combination of income and capital growth. Under normal market conditions, the Portfolio typically invests at least 80% of its assets in debt securities of issuers that are organised, or have substantial business activities, in Emerging Markets. These securities may be below investment grade.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Diwakar Vijayvergia | Portfolio Manager-Asia Fixed Income | 2022 | Now |
Biography | Portfolio Manager—Asia Fixed Income Diwakar Vijayvergia is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager on the Asia Fixed Income team, focusing on Asia Pacific and emerging-market fixed-income strategies. Prior to this he was a senior credit analyst on AB’s Credit Research team specializing in Southeast Asia and India corporate credit. Vijayvergia has worked as a credit analyst since 2006 and has covered multiple regions, sectors and capital structures. Before joining the firm in 2018, he was a senior vice president and head of credit strategy at Jefferies International, focusing on high yield and distressed credit in Asia. Prior to that, Vijayvergia was a senior desk analyst for eight years at RBS, covering global distressed opportunities, private financing and performing credits. He holds a BCom (honors) in accountancy from the University of Calcutta and an MBA in finance from the Indian Institute of Management. Location: Singapore | ||
Christian DiClementi | Vice President | 2022 | Now |
Biography | Christian DiClementi is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at AB, focusing on local-currency emerging-market debt portfolios. He is a member of the Emerging Market Debt and Global Fixed Income portfolio-management teams, and a member of the Emerging Market Debt Research Review team. Prior to joining the Emerging Market Debt portfolio-management team in early 2013, DiClementi served as a member of the Economic Research Group, focusing mainly on sovereign fundamental research for the Caribbean, Central American and Latin American regions. Previously, he worked as an analyst in the firm’s Quantitative Research Group, focusing primarily on global sovereign return and risk modeling. DiClementi joined AB in 2003 as an associate portfolio manager, responsible for New York–based municipal bond accounts. He holds a BS in mathematics (summa cum laude) from Fairfield University. Location: New York | ||
Elizabeth Bakarich | - | 2018 | Now |
Biography | Elizabeth Bakarich, CFA Portfolio Manager—Emerging Market Corporate Debt Elizabeth Bakarich is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager, focusing on emerging-market corporate debt. She is a member of the Credit, Emerging Market Corporate Debt and Emerging Market Debt portfolio-management teams. Bakarich became part of the Emerging Markets team in 2014, working as an associate portfolio manager on corporate and local-currency debt portfolios. Prior to that, she worked in the firm’s London office on the Global and European Credit teams. Bakarich joined the firm in 2006 as an associate with the US Municipal Group and later became supervisor of that group. She holds a BS and MS in mathematics from the Stevens Institute of Technology. Bakarich is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York | ||
Shamaila Khan | Portfolio Manager | 2012 | 2023 |
Biography | Shamaila Khan is Head of Fixed Income Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific at UBS Asset Management. She is also a member of the Fixed Income Management team, Fixed Income Investment Forum (FIIF), and chairs the Emerging Markets FIIF sub-committee. Shamaila joined UBS Asset Management in 2023, having previously been Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein where she oversaw $33bn in Emerging Markets (EM) Assets Under Management across EM Dedicated strategies and EM exposure in multisector accounts, and led a team of 23 portfolio managers, credit and sovereign research analysts and traders in New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Shamaila was also portfolio manager on several global multi-sector fixed income funds as well as EM multi-asset funds. Prior to her time at AllianceBernstein, Shamaila served as managing director of emerging-market debt for TIAA-CREF. | ||
Marco G. Santamaria | Portfolio Manager | 2012 | 2017 |
Biography | Marco Santamaria is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager, focusing on hard-currency emerging-market debt at AB. He is a member of the Emerging Market Debt and Global High Income portfolio-management teams, and a member of the Emerging Market Debt Research Review team. Santamaria plays an integral role in the Hard Currency Emerging Market Debt, core Emerging Market Debt and Investment Grade Emerging Market Debt strategies, as well as the hard-currency emerging-market debt component of the Global High Income portfolios. He originally worked at AB from 1992 to 1994, and then rejoined the firm in 2010. Prior to that, Santamaria was a founding partner at Global Securities Advisors, a fixed-income hedge fund focused on emerging markets. Earlier in his career, he managed the Emerging Markets Sovereign Strategy Research team at Lehman Brothers. Santamaria holds an AB in economics and English from Amherst College and an MA in international economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York |
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