Jeff Cucunato

Jeff Cucunato

Managing Director & Lead Portfolio Manager, Multi-Strategy Credit

Jeff Cucunato, Managing Director, is the lead portfolio manager for the Multi-Strategy Credit platform within BlackRock's Global Credit group.  He is responsible for managing portfolios that allocate to opportunities across the global credit markets.  He also chairs the credit platform's Investment Strategy Group, which focuses on evaluating investment opportunities across global investment grade, high yield, bank loans and illiquid credit.
 
Previously, Jeff was Head of Investment Grade Credit where he led the firm's U.S. fundamental investment grade credit effort for over 10 years and spent 15 years as the lead portfolio manager for BlackRock's investment grade credit and long duration portfolios.  He began his investment career in 1997 focusing on interest rate products, including management of BlackRock's inflation-linked bond portfolios.  Jeff joined BlackRock in 1995 as an analyst in the Institutional Client Business group, working with international clients and alternative investments. 
 
Jeff earned a BA degree, cum laude, in history from Dartmouth College in 1995.