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Christian Stracke

President
Mr. Stracke is a managing director and PIMCO’s president. He is based in the London office. As president, he oversees international operations outside of the Americas, including strategy, expanding distribution, and scaling the private strategies platform. Mr. Stracke is a senior portfolio manager and member of various committees across PIMCO’s alternative credit and private strategies platform. He also serves on the firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, he was a senior credit strategist at CreditSights, head of Latin America fixed income strategy at Commerzbank Securities, and head of Latin America local markets strategy at Deutsche Bank. He also volunteered with the Peace Corps as an agroforestry extension agent in Mauritania, West Africa. He has 28 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.
Economic and Market Commentary

Bank Retrenchment Creates Attractive Opportunities for Credit Investors

2025-05-28

Watch PIMCO President and Global Head of Credit Research Group, Christian Stracke, share insights at this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference.

Christian Stracke
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Economic and Market Commentary

Adapting to the Evolving Credit Landscape

2023-12-07

Learn how to navigate the shifting dynamics in banking and private credit from a panel discussion at our recent Alternatives Investor Conference.

Christian Stracke,  Kristofer Kraus,  Jason Steiner
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Economic and Market Commentary

Specialty Finance: Seize Today’s Compelling Entry Point

2023-10-23

Learn about the factors that are creating unique entry points in specialty finance, and why PIMCO experts believe there are attractive risk-adjusted returns and greater scale than ever before.

Christian Stracke,  Kristofer Kraus,  Preeyam Gandhi
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Education

Reading the Road Ahead: Behind the Scenes at PIMCO’s Economic Forums

2023-07-01

Before Economic Forums were mainstream on Wall Street, our investment professionals were gathering to identify economic and market trends for our clients. Decades later, the cornerstone of our process is stronger and more important than ever.

Daniel J. Ivascyn,  Tiffany Wilding,  Stephen Chang,  Steve Rodosky,  Christian Stracke,  Richard Clarida
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Research

The Value of Smoothing

2022-05-16
Jamil Baz,  Josh Davis,  Lloyd Han,  Christian Stracke
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