Gershon M. Distenfeld, CFA

Gershon M. Distenfeld, CFA

Director—Income Strategies

25 Years at AB
26 Years of experience

Gershon M. Distenfeld is a Senior Vice President, Director of Income Strategies and a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. He is responsible for the management and strategic growth of AB’s income platform with almost $50B in assets under management. This includes the multiple-award-winning Global High Yield and American Income portfolios, flagship fixed-income funds on the firm’s Luxembourg-domiciled fund platform for non-US investors. Distenfeld also oversees AB’s public leveraged finance business. He joined AB in 1998 as a fixed-income business analyst and served as a high-yield trader (1999–2002) and high-yield portfolio manager (2002–2006) before being named director of High Yield in 2006, director of Credit in 2015 and co-head of Fixed Income in 2018. Distenfeld began his career as an operations analyst supporting Emerging Markets Debt at Lehman Brothers. He holds a BS in finance from the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University and is a CFA charterholder. Location: Nashville

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Looking to De-Risk? High Yield Can Help

Looking to De-Risk? High Yield Can Help

by Gershon Distenfeld, Will Smith
The S&P 500 Index hit an all-time high on April 23, thanks to improving investor optimism. But for some equity investors, market highs signal a good time to reduce downside risk. Shifting a modest allocation into US high yield is an efficient way of doing just that—significantly lowering overall risk while only modestly curbing potential returns.

Asset Allocation, Fixed Income, Volatility


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