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Meet Gordon

Gordon Shannon

Partner, Portfolio Manager

17 years investment experience

London

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP

8th Floor, The Monument Building, 11 Monument Street

EC3R 8AF London

United Kingdom

Gordon is one of the partners at TwentyFour Asset Management (TwentyFour), having joined in 2015 as a portfolio manager. He has over 17 years of experience in fixed income. Gordon’s main responsibility is as Co-Head of the Investment Grade Business line. Gordon is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and ESG steering group.

Prior to 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 and became a CFA® Charterholder.

Prior to this, Gordon worked as a Pensions Consultant at Watson Wyatt for 2 years, after graduating from Cambridge University in 2005 with a degree in Economics.

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Why central bank policy errors should be top of your 2022 worry list

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