BlackRock Global Funds - World Bond Fund D2 GBP Hedged
Category Global Diversified Bond - GBP Hedged
This fund can be held in an Investment ISA, SIPP and Investment Account
Last buy/sell price
£11.95/£11.95
£0.01 (+0.08%)
Fund Code
BGWBD
B8FRCM7
LU0871639547
Prices updated as at 08 May 2025
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Investment objective
The Fund seeks to maximise total return in a manner consistent with the principles of environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) focused investing. The Fund invests at least 70% of its total assets in investment grade fixed income transferable securities. Currency exposure is flexibly managed. The Fund is a CIBM Fund and may gain direct exposure for no more than 20% of its total assets to onshore bonds distributed in Mainland China in the CIBM via the Foreign Access Regime and/ or Bond Connect and/or other means as may be permitted by the relevant regulations from time to time.
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Company name
BlackRock (Luxembourg) SA
Fund launch date
04 Sep 1985
Domicile
Luxembourg
UCITS
Yes
Fund manager
Aidan Doyle
Manager start date
01 Oct 2017
Fund manager biography
CFA, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager within the Global Bond Team. He is co-lead manager for the BGF World Bond Fund, the BGF Global Government Bond Fund, the BGF Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund, BGF Sustainable Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund, and the BGF US Dollar Bond Fund. Mr. Doyle began his career at BlackRock in 2010 when he joined the Global Bond Team as a portfolio manager. He is responsible for developing macro directional and relative value investment strategies and managing the team's global aggregate and global government bond portfolios. Mr Doyle. has a MSc degree in Finance from the Imperial College London, with a focus on fixed income and derivatives. He earned a BA degree in Economics, with honors, from Trinity College Dublin, with a focus on financial economics.
Fund manager
Rick Rieder
Manager start date
01 Dec 2018
Fund manager biography
Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team. Responsible for roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC) and its GEC Investments Sub-Committee. He is also a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He has been awarded the 2023 Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar, was nominated for Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar in 2021, was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013. Four of the funds Mr. Rieder manages (Strategic Income Opportunities, Fixed Income Global Opportunities, Total Return, and Strategic Global Bond) have been awarded Gold Medals by Morningstar. From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta. Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Goizueta Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the Goizueta Business School's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program, Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation, and Trustee for the US Olympic Foundation.
Head office
35 A, avenue J.F. Kennedy,
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
L-1855
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