Scott DiMaggio, CFA
25 Years at AB|32 Years of Experience
Scott DiMaggio is a Senior Vice President, Head of Fixed Income and a member of the Operating Committee. As Head of Fixed Income, he is responsible for the management and strategic growth of AB’s fixed-income business and investment decisions across the department. DiMaggio has previously served as director of Global Fixed Income and continues to be a portfolio manager across numerous multi-sector and multi-currency strategies. Prior to joining AB’s Fixed Income portfolio-management team, he performed quantitative investment analysis, including asset-liability, asset-allocation, return attribution and risk analysis for the firm. Before joining the firm in 1999, DiMaggio was a risk management market analyst at Santander Investment Securities. He also held positions as a senior consultant at Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting. DiMaggio holds a BS in business administration from the State University of New York, Albany, and an MS in finance from Baruch College. He is a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals and a CFA charterholder. Location: New York
Published Work
Our investment heads discuss the forces that will shape growth, interest rates and businesses around the world.
Continued volatility, falling yields, and other expectations for the year ahead, plus seven strategies to take advantage.
Balancing credit risk with interest-rate risk in a dynamically managed portfolio can be an all-weather approach.
Systematic fixed-income investing is attracting increased attention but needs specialist skills and resources. Does your manager have what it takes?
We expect bond yields to trend gradually lower—but it may be a bumpy ride. These seven strategies may help investors take advantage.
Don’t miss out. Prepare to take advantage of opportunities in the second half.
Bond investors have been looking for an approach that delivers attractive, repeatable, uncorrelated active returns. Is their wait over?
Bond investors who are overly focused on individual data points may lose sight of the bigger opportunity picture.
What does an era of higher equilibrium inflation mean for yields, volatility and active bond investing?
The tide has turned for bonds. Here’s what we think is in store for 2024.
Investors are entering the new year with many concerns about macroeconomic conditions and market volatility. The heads of our fixed-income, equities and alternatives businesses lay out some of the key investment storylines to watch in 2024.
Good news for bond investors: yields are likely to stay higher for longer. We share strategies for making the most of this environment.
Bond investors have been looking for an approach that delivers attractive, repeatable, uncorrelated active returns. Is their wait over?
Do high-yield bonds still make sense for income investors at this stage of the credit cycle? We think so.
Surf's up! Elevated yields and negative correlations are good news for bond investors. We share strategies for making the most of today's opportunities.
The economic outlook for the US is cloudy, but the right mix of credit and government bonds may help investors boost income in all kinds of weather.
Market conditions may be unpredictable, but these strategies can help investors gain traction.
Could debt-ceiling drama create investment opportunities?
Leading active fixed-income managers have long sought to make their investment performance outcomes more consistent and repeatable through process improvements. These enhancements have typically systematized aspects of the investment process without substantially altering the main sources of outperformance or reducing the levels of beta risk.
Conflicting economic data and volatile markets can reduce visibility. It helps to look beyond the turbulence to the destination.
Our Fixed-Income Co-Heads survey the market landscape for 2023—and provide strategies for making the most of it.
Future investing challenges will be profoundly different than those that dominated capital markets in recent decades. Investors must adjust their expectations accordingly.
It's been a stormy year for investors, and the forecast calls for more of the same. We address today's challenges and opportunities and strategies for navigating bad weather.
It's been a long and winding road, and most investors are feeling a bit queasy. Our Fixed Income co-heads pull out their road map for bonds.
Active bond investors can rise to the challenges of today environment. Here's how.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shaken up broad issues that shape our analysis of asset classes and securities. Here's what our investment teams are beginning to assess.
Our Fixed Income Co-Heads survey the market landscape for 2022—and provide strategies for making the most of it.
Bond markets are supposed to be placid. But outsized uncertainty in today’s bond markets is putting investors on edge. We make sense of today’s investing landscape.
We address the three most common investor concerns we’re hearing today—inflation, tapering and climate risk. Plus, a bonus worry (if you’re not thinking about this risk, you should be).
Worried about rising rates? Inflation keeping you up at night? We've identified three strategies that will help keep your portfolio aloft.
In conversations with clients, we're hearing recurring questions about diversification that require innovative solutions for unusual market conditions.
AB's Co-Heads of Fixed Income weigh in on systemic risk, areas of opportunity and the hunt for yield in 2021.
Can bonds continue to play defense and provide income when yields are at historic lows? We think so.
Low yields plus rising defaults seemingly leave little ground for bond investors seeking safety or income - or both. But for investors who remain flexible, these objectives aren’t as distant as many think.
Most of the bond market sold off in March as the coronavirus crisis intensified. But as past crises have shown, indiscriminate selloffs can generate big opportunities.
Expecting the unexpected? Our Co-Head of Fixed Income and our US economist discuss bond strategies for volatile times.
Is the impact of global monetary stimulus waning? Our Co-Head of Fixed Income and our US economist discuss whether fiscal stimulus will pick up the slack.
The Fed balance sheet is back. Our Co-Head of Fixed Income and our US economist discuss what recent stimulus means to the economy and markets.
Bond yields are low, geopolitical risk is rising and the economic outlook is uncertain. This could create some challenges for investors who rely on their fixed-income allocation to provide income, returns, stability and diversification against equity risk. But we think investors can still fortify their fixed-income allocations in a way that increases return potential without an excessive increase in risk.
With bond yields near record lows, can fixed-income markets generate solid returns in 2020 without forcing investors to take too much risk? From a fraught geopolitical landscape to a global slowdown, we assess today's biggest challenges—and opportunities.
Crowded trades have become all too common in fixed-income markets. But running with the crowd is risky, particularly when it comes to illiquid assets like bank loans that may not be easy to sell during a market downturn.
The digital revolution took its time getting to fixed income, but today it's transforming the investing landscape. Already, major advances in technology are helping early adopters gain unique insights and act faster in markets where speed and alpha are increasingly and inextricably linked.
At long last, fixed-income investing is entering the digital age-and investors should pay close attention to what their asset managers are doing to keep up. From better pricing to better solution design, the digital revolution that's transforming the fixed-income management landscape can lead to a host of benefits.