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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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