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Mark Kiesel

CIO Global Credit


Mr. Kiesel is CIO Global Credit and a managing director in the Newport Beach office. He is a member of the Investment Committee, a generalist portfolio manager, and the global lead of corporate bond portfolio management, with oversight for the firm’s investment grade, high yield, and bank loan business as well as credit research and PIMCO's actively managed MLP/energy strategies. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year in 2012 and a finalist in both 2010 and 2017. He has written extensively on the topic of global credit markets, founded the firm’s Global Credit Perspectives publication, and regularly appears in the financial media. Mr. Kiesel also serves as a member of Google’s Investment Advisor Committee. He joined PIMCO in 1996 and previously served as PIMCO's global lead of investment grade corporate bonds and as a senior credit analyst. He has 31 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
Mark Kiesel
Viewpoints
Credit Outlook: High Quality Bonds Offer Equity-Like Return Potential
18/10/2023
Hear from PIMCO experts about how investors may benefit from capturing today’s compelling yields among high-quality bonds, including investment grade credit. Explore the potential for equity-like returns with lower volatility.
Viewpoints
Navigating Credit Markets Today – A Q&A With Mark Kiesel and Jamie Weinstein
22/09/2023
Public credit markets offer high quality investments with attractive yields and downside resilience, while we see growing longer-term opportunities in private markets.
Blog
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Four Common Misconceptions in Public and Private Credit Markets
11/05/2022
Heightened market volatility has led to misconceptions about credit, in our view. We dispel four of them here.
Viewpoints
Disruption and Dispersion: A Bottom-Up Approach to an Uneven Credit Recovery
22/01/2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global credit markets, we believe bottom-up research can reveal investment opportunities for 2021.