Christopher Bliss is a Managing Director and Head of Equity Index Strategies for Schwab Asset Management. Mr. Bliss is responsible for overseeing the portfolio management for equity index Schwab Funds^® and Schwab ETFs^TM, and Schwab Personalized Indexing^® separately managed accounts. 

Before joining Schwab in 2016, Mr. Bliss spent 12 years at BlackRock (formerly Barclays Global Investors) managing and leading institutional index teams, most recently as a managing director and the head of the Americas institutional index team. In this role, Mr. Bliss was responsible for overseeing a team of portfolio managers managing domestic, developed international and emerging markets index strategies. Prior to BlackRock, he worked as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for Harris Bretall and before that, as a research analyst for JP Morgan.

Mr. Bliss earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Northern Illinois University. He is a CFA^® charterholder. 

Portfolio Management for Schwab Personalized Indexing is provided by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management, a registered investment adviser and an affiliate of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. ("Schwab").  Both Schwab Asset Management and Schwab are separate entities and subsidiaries of The Charles Schwab Corporation.

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