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Christian Stracke

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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 29 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.
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Accrued Interest

From the Middle East to Credit Markets: Christian Stracke on Today’s Uncertainty

What began as an uncertain year has only grown more unpredictable, with conflict in the Middle East and stress across credit rattling the broader markets. Christian Stracke, PIMCO’s President and Head of APAC and EMEA, joins Accrued Interest to lay out a framework for investing when uncertainty and volatility are features, not the exception. Together, he and host Greg Hall get into the ripple effects that the latest geopolitical shocks could have on oil prices, inflation and global markets—and why there’s “a crisis of confidence” in some, not all, parts of private credit.

Economic and Market Commentary

Asset-Based Finance: A New Era in Credit Investing

There’s a transformation underway in credit markets: from bank syndication to hybrid structures led by asset managers. Discover how duration risk, asset-liability mismatches, and demand for yield are creating high-quality credit opportunities and what it means for portfolio construction.

Economic and Market Commentary

Bank Retrenchment Creates Attractive Opportunities for Credit Investors

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

Economic and Market Commentary

Adapting to the Evolving Credit Landscape

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

Research

The Value of Smoothing

Research

Valuing a Lost Opportunity: An Alternative Perspective on the Illiquidity Discount

Research

Liquidity, Complexity and Scale in Private Markets

This paper investigates models of illiquidity and summarizes their salient conclusions.

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