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Meet Chris

Chris Bowie

Partner, Portfolio Management

32 years investment experience

London

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP

8th Floor, The Monument Building, 11 Monument Street

EC3R 8AF London

United Kingdom

Chris is one of the partners at TwentyFour Asset Management (TwentyFour), joining in September 2014 to create and manage the Investment Grade business line.

TwentyFour's Investment Grade strategies sit between the Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) and Multi-Sector Bond (MSB) strategies and tend to have greater exposure to interest rate sensitive bonds, where active management of duration risk can be a key determinant of absolute and relative performance.

Day-to-day, Chris is the lead manager for the team's Short Term Bond Strategy. He is also a member of TwentyFour's Asset Allocation Committee and a member of its ESG Committee.

Chris has 31 years of experience across fixed income markets, having been Head of Credit at Ignis for 10 years and Head of Rates at AEGON. Before his time at AEGON, Chris was a senior portfolio manager at Murray Johnstone Ltd (acquired by Abrdn Asset Management).

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Investment Grade Quarterly Update – July 2023

Oct 10 2024 Market Update

Investment Grade Quarterly Update – October 2024

Chris Bowie at TwentyFour Asset Management describes the third quarter of 2024 as a significant turning point in fixed income markets, marked by the Federal Reserve (Fed) cutting interest rates by 50 basis points (bps) for the first time in many years. This followed an earlier 25bp cut by the Bank of England (BoE), setting the scene for further rate cuts over the coming years.

Duration deliberation

Aug 02 2024 Market Update

The duration deliberation

TwentyFour Asset Management's Chris Bowie discusses the underweight duration across all of our outcome driven strategies, how this phase is now coming to an end, and why we are beginning to increase our interest rate duration in all of our funds.

The duration deliberation - to extend or not to extend?

May 28 2024 Market Update

The duration deliberation - to extend or not to extend?

TwentyFour Asset Management’s Chris Bowie, takes a closer look at how he is thinking about duration within fixed income portfolios and shows how following conventional wisdom on duration might prove costly for some investors this year.

Why staying in cash could cost you 10 to 30% over the next three years

Nov 01 2023 Market Update

Why staying in cash could cost you 10% to 30%

While bonds are once again finding their feet, investors have found themselves sitting on cash balances of 30% to 50%. This capital preservation trade has made perfect sense, but does it still make sense as we reach terminal rates?

It is our view that without a doubt 2022 was a year to forget for the bond market. Whether you held government bonds, high end corporate credit or riskier high yield paper, you would have taken a knock as steep increases in interest rates across the globe sent bond prices tumbling. Fast forward to the final few months of 2023, however, and the outlook is now very different. Bonds have once again found their feet with yields significantly higher across the board and a growing sense that Central Bank rate

Oct 11 2023 Market Update

Inverted yields curves make short-dated bonds more compelling

It is our view that without a doubt 2022 was a year to forget for the bond market. Whether you held government bonds, high end corporate credit or riskier high yield paper, you would have taken a knock as steep increases in interest rates across the globe sent bond prices tumbling.

Short Term Bond Quarterly Update – April 2023

Apr 20 2023 Market Update

Short Term Bond Quarterly Update – April 2023

Partner and Portfolio Manager Chris Bowie discusses recent Q1 events and gives an outlook for Investment Grade for the next quarter.