OREANDA-NEWS. Prudential Fixed Income today announced that Brad Blalock has joined the Institutional Consultant Relations team as a principal. In this role, he is responsible for developing strategic relationships with institutional consultants and building support in this channel for Prudential Fixed Income strategies and capabilities. Prudential Fixed Income, among the largest fixed income managers in the United States, is an asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).

Before joining Prudential, Blalock was a founding principal of Lockwell Investment LLC, with oversight of sales and consultant relations, based in New York. Earlier, he worked at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc., as an executive director and global co-head of consultant relations. From 1993 to 2007, Blalock was with Mercer Investment Consulting, Inc., most recently as US director of consulting and worldwide partner.

Blalock received a BS degree in actuarial science from the University of Illinois, and an MBA in finance from Northwestern University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Blalock is also a co-author of the section “Cash Balance Pension Plans” in the book Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-first Century.

“Brad brings great energy, and valuable perspective to our efforts globally,” said Miguel Thames, managing director and head of U.S. sales and global consultant relations at Prudential Fixed Income.