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Andrew Balls

Pimco's Chief Investment Officer for Global Fixed Income

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ15126971 ↗
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Andrew Thomas Balls is PIMCO's Chief Investment Officer for Global Fixed Income and a former Financial Times journalist. He is a brother of former UK Shadow Chancellor and former government minister Ed Balls; their father is zoologist Michael Balls.

Education

Balls read philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford graduating in 1995.

He then went on to obtain a master's degree from Harvard Kennedy School.

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The public source identifies “Andrew Balls” as pimco's Chief Investment Officer for Global Fixed Income. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Andrew, Balls and Pimco's.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Andrew, Balls and Pimco's providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Balls” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.