Experts

Christian Stracke

President, Global Head of Credit Research

Mr. Stracke is a managing director, PIMCO’s president, and the global head of the credit research group. 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. As global head of credit research, he oversees the group covering all levels of the debt capital structure for targeted industries, including investment grade and high yield bonds, bank debt, and convertibles. Mr. Stracke is a senior portfolio manager and member of various committees across PIMCO’s alternative credit and private strategies platform. In addition to his portfolio management responsibilities, he sits 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 27 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.

Economic and Market Commentary

Adapting to the Evolving Credit Landscape

12/7/2023

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

Christian Stracke, Kristofer Kraus, Jason Steiner

Economic and Market Commentary

Sustainable Development Goals at PIMCO

11/27/2023

As an important framework, the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to guide companies and investors to effectively finance sustainable economic activities. Learn more about our proprietary tools and frameworks that are aligned with the 17 SDGs.

Christian Stracke, Gavin Power

Economic and Market Commentary

Specialty Finance: Seize Today’s Compelling Entry Point

10/23/2023

Learn about the factors that are creating unique entry points in specialty finance, and why PIMCO experts believe there are attractive risk-adjusted returns and greater scale than ever before.

Christian Stracke, Kristofer Kraus, Preeyam Gandhi

Education

Reading the Road Ahead: Behind the Scenes at PIMCO’s Economic Forums

7/1/2023

Before Economic Forums were mainstream on Wall Street, our investment professionals were gathering to identify economic and market trends for our clients. Decades later, the cornerstone of our process is stronger and more important than ever.

Daniel J. Ivascyn, Tiffany Wilding, Stephen Chang, Lupin Rahman, Steve Rodosky, Christian Stracke, Richard Clarida

Economic and Market Commentary

Opportunistic Credit: Weakening Credit and Tightening Lending Conditions Drive Compelling Value

4/3/2023

Higher interest rates and tighter lending conditions are creating a very attractive environment for opportunistic credit managers with flexible capital to fill large liquidity gaps.

Daniel J. Ivascyn, Christian Stracke, Adam Gubner, Neal J. Reiner

Research

The Value of Smoothing

5/16/2022

Jamil Baz, Josh Davis, Lloyd Han, Christian Stracke

Economic and Market Commentary

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

7/11/2019

Jamil Baz, Christian Stracke

Economic and Market Commentary

Liquidity, Complexity and Scale in Private Markets

3/19/2019

Jamil Baz, Christian Stracke

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