mallowstreet Live: Credit

Speakers

• Mahmoud El-Shaer - Aviva Investors

  Mahmoud El-Shaer, Head of Liability Driven Credit, Aviva Investors. Mahmoud joined the investment industry in 1999 and joined Aviva Investors a year later. Mahmoud’s main responsibilities include managing and developing the Liability Driven Credit team, which is responsible for managing the fixed income portfolios covering liabilities from Aviva’s UK, Irish and French businesses’ annuity, with-profit, non-profit and general insurance policies as well as the Aviva Staff Pension Scheme.

  Experience and qualifications: Prior to joining Aviva Investors, Mahmoud was a portfolio manager at Swiss Re, managing the firm’s sterling corporate credit book. He previously worked as a senior investment manager for European Investment Grade at State Street Global Advisors and as a portfolio manager for Global Fixed Income at Salomon Brothers KAG and Citigroup Asset Management. Mahmoud earned a Certificate in Banking from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Düsseldorf. He holds an MBA from London Business School and studied Business Administration (Diplom Kaufmann) with a focus on finance, econometrics, and operations research at Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt. Mahmoud is a CFA charterholder and a member of both the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of the UK

• Chris Bowie - TwentyFour Asset Management

  Chris is one of the partners at TwentyFour, joining in September 2014 to create and manage the Outcome and Index Driven business line. This business line sits between the ABS and Unconstrained strategies and tends to have greater exposure to interest rate sensitive bonds, where the active management of duration risk is a key determinant of absolute and relative performance. Day to day, Chris is the lead manager for the Corporate Bond Fund and Absolute Return Credit Fund.  He also is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Chris has 21 years of experience across fixed income markets, having been Head of Credit at Ignis for 10 years, and Head of Rates at AEGON (now Kames). Before AEGON, Chris was a senior portfolio manager at Murray Johnstone Ltd (which was acquired by Aberdeen Asset management).

• Stuart Lingard - Franklin Templeton Investments

  Director - Global Fixed Income Product Management

  Stuart Lingard is a product representative for the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group across Europe, representing the full breadth of fixed income investment strategies from core fixed income through global unconstrained to credit and its sub-asset classes such as high yield and bank loans.

  With 13 years of investment experience, prior to joining Franklin Templeton Stuart worked at Invesco, where he managed a portfolio of high profile global fixed income client accounts and was responsible for developing the fixed income product range globally. Stuart holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Surrey.