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Name | Title | Since | Until |
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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 | ||
Douglas J. Peebles | Senior Vice President | 2012 | Now |
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. | ||
Michael E. Sohr | - | 2012 | Now |
Biography | "Portfolio Manager—Credit Michael E. Sohr is a member of the Credit portfolio management team and has been managing the firm’s high-yield loan portfolios since 2005. He joined the firm in 1999 as an analyst in the Fixed Income Research Group, where he was charged with analyzing and taking lead positions in negotiating in-court and out-of-court restructurings of investments in underperforming companies. Prior to joining the firm, Sohr worked at Credit Lyonnais Securities, where he originated and structured high-yield securities, and at Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, where he was responsible for restructuring and resolving investments in numerous highly leveraged companies. He holds a BA in economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from New York University. Sohr is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York " |
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