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Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Robert Schwartz | Senior Vice President | 2022 | Now |
Biography | Robert Schwartz is a Senior Vice President and Corporate Credit Research Analyst, covering specialty finance, automotive, aerospace/defense and industrial companies. Prior to joining AB in 2012, he analyzed the same industries as a senior credit analyst at Citadel Investment Group and Bell Point Capital Management. Before beginning his investing career in 2005, Schwartz was a project leader with Boston Consulting Group, where he advised industrial and financial companies on corporate strategy. He started his career as an automotive engineer working in Detroit, where he was awarded two patents. Schwartz holds a BS in mechanical engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Michigan and an MBA (with high distinction) from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Location: New York | ||
William Smith | Portfolio Manager | 2017 | 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. | ||
Gershon M. Distenfeld | Senior Vice President | 2012 | 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 | ||
Jacqueline Pincus | Vice President | 2018 | 2023 |
Amy Strugazow | - | 2012 | 2018 |
Biography | Amy Strugazow assumed her current role of Associate Portfolio Manager of Credit Portfolio Implementation in 2007. She joined the firm in 2000 as an associate portfolio manager/trading and technical associate for Value Equities. In 2004, Strugazow joined Fixed Income as a portfolio assistant, servicing insurance and corporate clients, performing portfolio analytics and generating scenario analysis for the Fixed Income portfolios. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein, she was a custody accountant at Investors Bank & Trust in Boston. Strugazow holds a BA in mathematics and economics from the State University of New York, Binghamton. Location: New York. |
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