University Dinner: Finding consistent and strong income generating assets that have lower levels of historic volatility

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TwentyFour Asset Management

Challenges of Bringing an ESG Approach to Multi-Asset Credit

ESG has tended to focus on equity ownership historically but has more recently turned towards fixed income markets and how they can influence change. There are relatively few options for investors in areas such as multi-asset credit with simple challenges such as robust data gathering at the forefront.

This session will look at how TwentyFour have faced some of these challenges. How do we rates bonds issues on ESG? Are Green Bonds part of the solution? How do we cope with holes in the data and/or reticence to supply it? What about more complex areas such as CLOs?

About TwentyFour Asset Management

TwentyFour Asset Management are specialists in fixed income, headquartered in the city of London and a boutique of the Swiss based Vontobel Group.

Since our inception in 2008, we have built an enviable reputation for performance, expertise and innovation in our chosen sector. We specialise in fixed income, nothing else. This fixed income specialist focus means that all our resources and people are managing one asset class with no distractions. This allows us to concentrate on delivering the best outcomes for our clients. We currently have £18.7bn in assets under management (as at 31.03.2021). Our product offerings are for both professional and institutional clients and our portfolio teams cover three distinct business areas but with a high degree of collaboration.

University Dinner: Finding consistent and strong income generating assets that have lower levels of historic volatility

UK Pension Funds have traditionally invested in long dated assets to match long term liabilities. This has led to UK Bond indices becoming some of the riskiest in the world as both Government and Corporates have issued at long end making them highly sensitive to interest rate rises. With interest rates likely to rise and pension fund moving towards flight plans with potential buy-out as the end game are there others ways of investing that can give greater certainty of return?

Over dinner, Mark and Chris will investigate ways of finding consistent and strong income generating assets that have lower levels of historic volatility.

This is a FREE event for pension fund trustees and their decision makers, and the dinner is eligible for CPD points. Places for this event are strictly limited so please register your attendance to avoid disappointment.

Speakers

Mark Holman Partner and CEO
Mark is one of the founding partners of TwentyFour, and serves as the firm's Chief Executive Officer.
He sits on the firm's Executive Committee, which has the overall responsibility for the day to day running of the firm, as well as the Board of Directors which sets the overall strategy and direction of the business.
Day to day, Mark is also a key member of the firm's Unconstrained Fixed Income team which manages strategies including the Dynamic Bond Fund. He is a member of the firm's Investment Committee.
Mark has 27 years of experience in fixed income markets gained across a variety of senior roles asset management and investment banking, including positions at Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley.
Chris Bowie
Chris has been managing fixed income portfolios for over 20 years, both across global credit and government bonds. Chris is one of the partners of TwentyFour and a member of the portfolio management team, where his primary responsibility is the management of the Absolute Return Fund. Before joining TwentyFour, Chris was Head of Credit Portfolio Management for ten years at Ignis Asset Management and was responsible for the firms’ £14bn of retail, institutional and insurance credit portfolios. Chris achieved top decile investment performance for the Ignis Corporate Bond Fund over 5 years, leading to an AA rating from Citywire and a Bronze rating from Morrningstar. Citywire also ranked Chris 14th out of 1,000 of the worlds’ top investment managers for three year risk adjusted performance in 2012, across fixed income, equity, property and cash asset classes. Between 2000 and 2004, Chris was Head of Rates at AEGON Asset Management in Edinburgh, responsible for £7bn of Rates portfolios across UK and Global Sovereign bond funds. Prior to this, from 1994 to 2000, Chris was a Senior Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Murray Johnstone Ltd. which was acquired by Aberdeen Asset Management in 2000. Here, Chris covered both credit and government bond portfolios for both retail and institutional clients.

Program

6:30 PM Welcome Drinks and Networking
7:00 PM Educational Three Course Dinner
9:00 PM Close and Networking
9:00 PM End

University Dinner: Finding consistent and strong income generating assets that have lower levels of historic volatility

Speakers

Program

6:30 PM Welcome Drinks and Networking

7:00 PM Educational Three Course Dinner

9:00 PM Close and Networking

9:00 PM End