Will Smith

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Will Smith
AllianceBernstein (Luxembourg)
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Will Smith is a Senior Vice President and Director of US High Yield Credit. He is also a member of the High Income, Global High Yield, Limited Duration High Income, Short Duration High Yield and European High Yield portfolio-management teams. Smith designed and is one of the lead portfolio managers for AB’s Multi-Sector Credit Strategy, which invests across investment-grade and high-yield credit sectors globally. He leads the monthly High Yield portfolio-construction meeting, and is a member of the Credit Research Review Committee, which determines investment policy for the firm’s credit-related portfolios. Smith has authored several papers and blogs on high-yield investing, including one on the importance of using a probability-based framework to build better portfolios. He joined AB in 2012, and spent 2014 in London as part of the European High Yield portfolio-management team. Smith started his career with UBS Investment Bank, working as an analyst with the Credit Risk team and then later on the Fixed Income sales and trading desk. He holds a BA in economics from Boston College and is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York

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Annualised total return over 7.1 years

+2.3%

Cumulative performance (% growth)

	1 year	3 years	5 years	7 years	10 years
Will Smith	7.3	6.8	12.4	17.6	-
Peer Group Composite	7.7	10.7	15.2	22.3	-
Over / Under	-0.4	-3.9	-2.8	-4.7	-

Total return for Will Smith

Discrete calendar year performance : Will Smith

Discrete performance

	0-12m	12-24m	24-36m	36-48m	48-60m	60-72m	72-84m	84-96m	96-108m	108-120m

Will Smith	7.3	2.0	-3.2	2.0	2.9	3.8	0.8	-	-	-
Peer Group Composite	7.7	3.8	-1.1	1.6	2.2	4.3	1.8	-	-	-
Over / Under	-0.4	-1.8	-2.1	0.4	0.7	-0.5	-1.0	-	-	-

Performance vs peer group composite: Will Smith

How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.

Overall markets

Outperformed peer group composite

2 years

out of a possible 7

Overall markets

Underperformed peer group composite

5 years

out of a possible 7

Rising markets

Outperformed peer group composite

2 years

out of a possible 6

Falling markets

Outperformed peer group composite

0 years

out of a possible 1

Funds currently managed

Fund	Sole/Co-managed	Sector	Periods

AB Short Duration High Yield Portfolio	Co-managed	FO Fixed Int - USD High Yield	since Oct 01 2017 to present
AB Sustainable Euro High Yield Portfolio	Co-managed	FO Fixed Int - EUR High Yield	since Oct 01 2017 to present
AB US High Yield Portfolio	Co-managed	FO Fixed Int - USD High Yield	since Oct 01 2017 to present
AB American Income Portfolio	Co-managed	FO Fixed Int - USD Investment Grade	since Feb 08 2023 to present
AB Global High Yield Portfolio	Co-managed	FO Fixed Int - Global High Yield	since Feb 08 2023 to present