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Greg Sharenow
Portfolio Manager, Commodities and Real Assets
Mr. Sharenow is a managing director and portfolio manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on commodities, real assets, and inflation solutions. He leads PIMCO’s commodity portfolio management group. He also co-manages PIMCO’s Energy and Tactical Credit Opportunities strategy. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he was an energy trader at Hess Energy Trading, Goldman Sachs, and DE Shaw. He was previously senior energy economist at Goldman Sachs. His co-authored article, “Beating Benchmarks,” won the Second Annual Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for Outstanding Article after it was published in the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has 24 years of investment and financial services experience and holds bachelor's degrees in mathematical methods in the social sciences and in economics from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Latest Insights
Blog
10/08/2023
Commodities stand to benefit from underinvestment and the clean energy transition.
Viewpoints
07/06/2023
With their ability to act as an inflation hedge, diversifier and return enhancer, commodities should be considered an important portfolio allocation over the long term.
Viewpoints
07/02/2023
Despite macroeconomic headwinds, commodities markets may offer attractive return potential this year in light of ongoing supply constraints and China’s reopening.
Quick Takes: Navigate Inflation Concerns with a Multi-Asset Approach
09/12/2022
Economic uncertainty can make it challenging to protect investments against inflation. Learn why using a range of real assets, like TIPS and commodities, may provide extra diversification benefits to a 60/40 portfolio.
Blog
12/10/2022
The OPEC+ plan to curb oil production complicates the global economic, inflation, and geopolitical outlook and will likely lead to higher prices for key commodities.
Blog
21/09/2022
The state takes a long view on environmental policy, potentially benefiting California’s cap-and-trade program.
Viewpoints
29/06/2022
Supply-side constraints on commodities pose risk to the global economy and elevate right tail risks to inflation.
Blog
02/03/2022
Commodities appear attractive amid elevated inflation, lingering supply-demand imbalances and high roll yields
What Rising Geopolitical Risks Mean for Commodities
24/02/2022
The escalation between Russia, Ukraine and the West has implications not just for energy, but for other commodities as well. Get our point of view on the fluid situation with Greg Sharenow, Head of Commodities, in this View From the Trade Floor.