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Ab High Income Fund Advisor Class (AGDYX)
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On this page you'll find an in-depth profile of Ab High Income Fund Advisor Class. Learn about the key management, total assets, investment strategy and contact information of AGDYX among other information.
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11345 Avenue of the Americas
New York,NY 10105
United States
New York,NY 10105
United States
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+1 212 9691000
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www.abglobal.com
Top Executives
| Name | Title | Since | Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Smith | Analyst | 2022 | Now |
| Biography | Will Smith is a Senior Vice President and Director of US High Yield Credit, one of the lead portfolio managers for multi-sector credit strategy. He is also a member of the High Income Portfolio Management Team. Mr. Smith joined AB in 2012 and spent 2014 in London as part of the European High Yield Portfolio Management Team. He started his career with UBS Investment Bank in 2009, working first as an analyst with the Credit Risk team and then later on the Fixed Income sales and trading desk. Mr. Smith holds a BA in economics from Boston College and is a CFA charterholder. | ||
| Christian DiClementi | Vice President | 2021 | 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 | ||
| Fahd Malik | - | 2021 | Now |
| Biography | Fahd Malik is a Portfolio Manager on the fixed income team, focusing primarily on Income Strategies. Prior to taking on this role, he served as a portfolio manager for AB’s Absolute Return fund. Malik joined the firm in 2006 and has extensive experience in systematic, market neutral, risk-mitigating and derivative strategies. He holds a BS in electrical and computer engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MS in mathematics in finance from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Location: New York | ||
| Gershon M. Distenfeld | Senior Vice President | 2008 | 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 | ||
| Matthew S. Sheridan | Senior Vice President | 2005 | Now |
| Biography | Matthew Sheridan is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at AB, primarily focusing on the Global Multi-Sector Strategy portfolios. He is a member of the Global Fixed Income, Global High Income and Emerging Market Debt portfolio-management teams. Additionally, Sheridan is a member of the Rates and Currency Research Review team and the Emerging Market Debt Research Review team. He joined AB in 1998 and previously worked in the firm’s Structured Asset Securities Group. Sheridan holds a BS in finance from Syracuse University. He is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York | ||
| Shamaila Khan | Portfolio Manager | 2019 | 2021 |
| 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. | ||
| Douglas J. Peebles | Senior Vice President | 2002 | 2020 |
| 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. | ||
| Paul J. DeNoon | Director | 2002 | 2020 |
| Biography | Paul DeNoon is Director of AB’s Global High Income and Emerging Market Debt strategies and a Partner of the firm. He leads the management of AB’s large global high-yield franchise, co-managing the firm’s award-winning High Income Fund, named “Best Fund over 10 Years” by Lipper from 2012 through 2015. DeNoon is also a Director, with Shamaila Khan, of AB’s Emerging Market Debt Portfolios, overseeing the management of emerging-market sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate debt strategies in both hard and local currencies. He is a member of the firm’s Emerging Market Multi-Asset Strategy Committee, Dynamic Asset Allocation Committee and the Municipal Impact Investment Policy Group. DeNoon is also the Partner overseeing the firm’s corporate responsibility, which includes responsible investment (environmental, social and corporate governance) and diversity and inclusion. He joined AB in 1992, and was instrumental in introducing some of the firm’s flagship emerging-market debt and global high-yield funds. Previously, DeNoon was a vice president in the Investment Portfolio Group at Manufacturers Hanover Trust and an economist in the bank’s Financial Markets Research Group, where he was primarily responsible for the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy. He began his career as a research analyst at Lehman Brothers. DeNoon holds a BA in economics from Union College and an MBA in finance from New York University. Location: New York | ||
| Marco G. Santamaria | Portfolio Manager | 2010 | 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 | ||
| Fernando Grisales | Senior Portfolio Manager | 2005 | 2009 |
| Biography | Fernando Grisales, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Senior Portfolio Manager for Emerging Market Debt Relative of Schroders. Mr. Grisales has been associated with Schroders since 2012. Prior to joining Schroders, he was a senior portfolio manager at ICE Canyon, an alternative investment firm specializing in emerging market debt, from 2010 to 2012, and a vice president and portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein from 2001 to 2010. Mr. Grisales received a B.S. from New York University in Finance, International Business and Economics. | ||
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