Elizabeth Bakarich, CFA
18 Years at AB|19 Years of Experience
Elizabeth Bakarich is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager, focusing on emerging-market corporate debt. She is a member of the Credit, Emerging Market Corporate Debt and Emerging Market Debt portfolio-management teams. Bakarich became part of the Emerging Markets team in 2014, working as an associate portfolio manager on corporate and local-currency debt portfolios. Prior to that, she worked in the firm's London office on the Global and European Credit teams. Bakarich joined the firm in 2006 as an associate with the US Municipal Group and later became supervisor of that group. She holds a BS and MS in mathematics from the Stevens Institute of Technology. Bakarich is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York
Published Work
We expect a favorable environment for emerging-market bonds in 2024, provided investors stay selective.
Just six metrics can effectively assess sovereign issuers’ sustainability and provide guidance for both issuers and investors.
Escalating trade tensions between the US and China could affect Chinese corporate bonds, but not all credits are vulnerable.
Investors recognize that emerging markets are at the core of the global economy and belong in a fixed-income allocation. Still, many investors are underexposed to emerging-market corporate bonds. We think that's a mistake.
Once a backwater of the bond world, emerging-market (EM) corporate debt has grown into a full-fledged asset class that investors can tap to diversify their EM allocation and boost their return potential.