Vontobel Fund - TwentyFour Absolute Return Credit Fund AQNG GBP Dist

Fund manager biography

Chris has been managing fixed income portfolios for over 25 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 Outcome Driven business line. Before joining TwentyFour in September 2014, Chris was Head of Credit portfolio management for ten years at Ignis Asset Management and was responsible for the firm’s £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 a AAA rating from Citywire and a Bronze rating from Morningstar. Citywire also ranked Chris 14th out of 1,000 of the world’s 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. Prior to his fund management career, Chris was an Analyst/Programmer for National Australia Bank. Chris holds the ASIP designation.

Fund manager biography

Gordon is one of the partners at TwentyFour having joined in 2015 as a Portfolio Manager. He has over 15 years of experience in fixed income. Gordon’s main responsibility is as Co-Head of the Outcome Driven Business line. Gordon is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and ESG steering group. Before joining TwentyFour, Gordon was a portfolio manager at Ignis Asset Management, helping to run £14bn of retail, institutional and insurance portfolios on the firm’s credit desk. Gordon worked at Ignis for 8 years running several euro and sterling corporate bond mandates. While at Ignis Gordon became a CFA Charterholder. Prior to this Gordon worked as a Pensions Consultant at Watson Wyatt for two years, after graduating from Cambridge University in 2005 with a degree in Economics.