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Douglas Charleston

Partner, Portfolio Management

18 years investment experience

London

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP

8th Floor, The Monument Building, 11 Monument Street

EC3R 8AF London

United Kingdom

Douglas is a partner at TwentyFour Asset Management (TwentyFour) and a portfolio manager in the firm's Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) team. Applying his 17 years of fixed income portfolio management experience, his primary responsibility is managing the firm’s ABS funds and several institutional mandates. He is also a member of TwentyFour’s Asset Allocation Committee.

A CFA® Charterholder, Douglas began his career at Nationwide Building Society, where he helped establish the Residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) funding platform and manage the Treasury’s global ABS investments. He subsequently moved to S&P where he rated European RMBS transactions, before moving to Lloyds in an investment banking capacity where he was a structurer for RMBS and whole loans clients.

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European ABS 2023: Enjoy the income, embrace the transparency

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