Anthony Faillace

Anthony co-founded Drake Management LLC in May 2001. As Chief Investment Officer, he heads the firm's Investment Committee. Anthony is also a portfolio manager specializing in global interest rate products and relative value strategies.

Formerly, Anthony was a managing director and senior portfolio manager at BlackRock, Inc., in New York. At BlackRock, Anthony was a key member of the international team, responsible for managing non-US fixed income assets, comprised of a number of traditional global bond portfolios and the international strategies in The Obsidian Funds, BlackRock's multi-strategy fixed income hedge fund.

Promoted to managing director in December 2000, Anthony joined BlackRock as a director in December 1999 after spending five years at PIMCO. While at PIMCO, Anthony was a key member of the international fixed income team and led the firm's discussions on international and emerging markets at the important annual secular forum strategy sessions.

Anthony also co-authored Inflation-Protected Bonds: Understanding Structures and Implementing Strategies (Fabozzi: 1996), the first book of its kind on U.S. inflation-linked securities, and the international fixed income section of Managing Bond Portfolios (Fabozzi: 1998). In addition to his investment management experience, Anthony worked as an investment analyst in the municipal bond group at the First Boston Corporation in New York. He holds an MBA from the JL Kellogg School at Northwestern University, a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with high honors, and studied international economics at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques of the University of Paris.