Matt Tucker

Head of Americas Systematic Fixed Income Strategy Blackrock

Matthew Tucker, CFA, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Systematic Fixed Income Strategy within Global Fixed Income. He leads the product strategy effort for the systematic active, smart beta, hedge fund, index, and exchange-traded funds businesses. His team focuses on commercializing the Systematic platform by supporting BlackRock’s sales teams, generating content on fixed income markets, and developing new fixed income strategies.  He is a member of the Global Systematic Fixed Income Executive Committee.

Mr. Tucker's service with the firm dates back to 1996, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to his current role he led the strategy efforts for the Americas fixed income iShares business, helping to create the business and build it into a $550b global franchise. At BGI, he led the U.S. Fixed Income Investment Solutions team, where he was responsible for overseeing product strategy for active, index, enhanced index, iShares (ETF) and long/short products. Previously, he was a portfolio manager and trader in fixed income focused on US government securities. Mr. Tucker has the distinction of having been the portfolio manager on the first U.S. fixed income ETFs launched in 2002. He began his career at Barra, where he supported clients in the use of Barra's fixed-income analytics. Mr. Tucker has published fixed income research in the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Index Investing, and the Journal if Indexes. He is also the co-author of the chapter on fixed income ETFs in the Handbook of Fixed Income Securities.

 Mr. Tucker earned a BS degree in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley and is a CFA Charter Holder.