Draft:Rick Rieder

Rick M. Rieder
Rick M. Rieder
Alma mater	Emory University (BBA); University of Pennsylvania (MBA)
Occupations	Investor, asset manager
Employer	BlackRock
Title	Chief Investment Officer, Global Fixed Income

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Comment: Needs more WP:SIGCOV in reliable sources not affiliated with the subject. Sources from the company he works at and his alma mater do not count towards notability. Lynch 44 14:59, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Rick M. Rieder is an American investor and asset-management executive. He is a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock and serves as the firm's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, as well as head of its Fundamental Fixed Income business and the Global Allocation investment team.^[1]

Early life and education

Rieder earned a BBA in finance from Emory University (1983) and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1987).^[1]

Career

Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Rieder was President and CEO of R3 Capital Partners.^[1] From 1987 to 2008, he worked at Lehman Brothers, where he led the firm's Global Principal Strategies platform and later oversaw credit businesses; earlier in his career he worked as a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.^[1]

At BlackRock, Rieder oversees roughly $2.5 trillion in assets.^[1]^[2] He serves on BlackRock leadership bodies including the Global Executive Committee and chairs the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.^[1]

Public service and other activities

Rieder has served as vice chair and member of a U.S. Treasury borrowing committee and as a member of a Federal Reserve investment advisory committee focused on financial markets.^[1] He serves on Alphabet's investment advisory committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board.^[1]

He is a trustee of Emory University (elected in 2008) and has been involved with Emory's Goizueta Business School and its investment and financial literacy initiatives.^[3] Rieder chairs the Board of Education for North Star Academy charter schools in Newark, New Jersey, and is a founder of Graduation Generation (an education initiative in Atlanta).^[1] He is an investor in and an advisor of the Baltimore Orioles.^[2]

Awards and recognition

Rieder has received industry recognition including Institutional Investor's "Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year" (2015) and induction into the Fixed Income Analysts Society's Fixed Income Hall of Fame (2013).^[1] In 2023 he was named Morningstar's Outstanding Portfolio Manager.^[2]

Potential Federal Reserve chair nomination

In January 2026, news reports described Rieder as a leading contender to be nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed Jerome H. Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve when Powell's term as chair ends on May 15, 2026; the reports cited increased interest in his candidacy among market participants and rising odds in prediction markets.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Rick Rieder". BlackRock. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
1 2 3 "Rick Rieder". Milken Institute. 6 May 2025. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
↑ "Rieder, Rick". Office of the Secretary, Emory University. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
↑ "Jerome H. Powell sworn in for second term as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System" (Press release). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. May 23, 2022. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
↑ "BlackRock's Rick Rieder surges ahead in race to chair Federal Reserve". Financial Times. January 2026. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
↑ "Fed meeting likely to be overshadowed by threats to central bank's independence". Reuters. January 26, 2026. Retrieved 2026-01-26.