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Darren Wills
BlackRock Fixed Inc Dub Fd plc, BlackRock (Luxembourg) S.A.
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Manager profile
Darren Wills, Director, is a portfolio manager within BlackRock's Model-Based Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. Mr. Wills' service with the firm dates back to 2008, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to BGI, Mr Wills was an investment manager at State Street Global Advisors, where he managed predominately sterling and global credit portfolios.Mr. Wills earned a BSc degree in mathematics and management sciences from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and holds the Investment Management Certificate.
Total return for Darren Wills
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4
 
 
 
 
 
66-102m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
78-114m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
90-126m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
102-138m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
114-150m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Darren Wills

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Darren Wills 3.4 0.4 -0.8 -7.0 -1.0 7.0 5.4 0.3 11.6 8.0
Peer Group Composite 3.9 2.2 -1.6 -7.1 2.1 4.6 3.3 1.2 11.4 6.1
Over / Under -0.5 -1.8 0.8 0.1 -3.1 2.4 2.1 -0.9 0.2 1.9
Performance vs peer group composite: Darren Wills
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.
 
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Outperformed peer group composite
6 years
out of a possible 10
 
Overall markets
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Underperformed peer group composite
4 years
out of a possible 10
 
Rising markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
4 years
out of a possible 8
 
Falling markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
2 years
out of a possible 2
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
iShares Euro Credit Bond Index (IE) Lead manager FO Fixed Int - EUR Corporate Bond since Dec 08 1998 to present
iShares US Corporate Bond Index (IE) Lead manager FO Fixed Int - USD Corporate Bond since Sep 12 2000 to present
iShares Euro Aggregate Bond Index (LU) Lead manager FO Fixed Int - EUR Investment Grade since May 28 2013 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
iShares ESG Screened Overseas Corporate Bond Index (UK) since Jan 28 2011 to Aug 31 2022
BlackRock Corporate Bond 1 to 10 Year since Jun 21 2010 to May 23 2011
iShares Corporate Bond Index since Jun 30 2010 to May 23 2011
iShares Overseas Government Bond Index (UK) since Jan 28 2011 to May 23 2011
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