Serena Zhou, CFA
11 Years at AB|15 Years of Experience
Serena Zhou is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income US Multi-Sector Group, primarily focusing on US Core, US Core Plus, Inflation-Linked Strategies, taxable separately managed accounts and active bond exchange-traded funds. Prior to her current role, she was a portfolio analyst in AB’s Global Multi-Sector Group in 2020 and a quantitative analyst in the Fixed Income Quantitative Research Group from 2013 to 2019, where she gained extensive experience in developing models for securitized products, market cycle indicator, alpha models in interest rate and FX, factor-based risk models and multi-sector portfolio constructions. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Zhou was an associate director in the Quantitative Research Analytic Group at S&P Global, where she was responsible for quantitative research in corporate and government rating and built the Market Derived Signal Model. Before that, Zhou worked as a quantitative derivatives analyst at ING. She holds a BS in statistics from People’s University of China, Beijing, and an MS in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University. Zhou is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York
Published Work
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