Meet George

George Curtis

Portfolio Management

13 years investment experience

London

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP

8th Floor, The Monument Building, 11 Monument Street

EC3R 8AF London

United Kingdom

George joined TwentyFour Asset Management (TwentyFour) in early 2015 as a member of the firm's Multi-Sector Bond (MSB) team. His primary responsibilities are to help manage the firm’s Multi-Sector Bond portfolios and focuses on European Credit.

Before joining TwentyFour, George worked as a Futures Trader at Marex Spectron for 3 years. George graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Economics. He is a CFA® Charterholder and member of the CFA Society UK.

Insights

Eurozone data soothes ECB growth concerns

1 Nov 2024 TwentyFour Blog

Eurozone data soothes ECB growth concerns

In what has been a busy week for macro news in Europe, the latest round of data for the Eurozone delivered a surprise that could have implications for the European Central Bank’s (ECB) interest rate plans.

The data shows the ECB must cut faster

3 Oct 2024 TwentyFour Blog

The data shows the ECB must cut faster

Data out of Europe over the past few weeks has pointed to both lower growth and lower inflation, and rate expectations have shifted accordingly with market pricing now implying a 96% chance of another 25bp cut from the European Central Bank (ECB) on October 17, up from around 25% on September 20.

Powell’s Masterplan allows for earlier intervention

27 Aug 2024 TwentyFour Blog

Powell’s Masterplan allows for earlier intervention

In his headlining speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell’s message to the market was clear.

Jackson Hole: 25 or 50?

19 Aug 2024 TwentyFour Blog

Jackson Hole: 25 or 50?

The title of this year’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium – essentially a short holiday camp for the world’s economists and central bankers – is “Reassessing the effectiveness and transmission of monetary policy”, an important question given the remarkable resilience developed market economies have shown to the sharpest interest rate hiking cycle we have seen in four decades.

Growth Blog

31 Jul 2024 TwentyFour Blog

Growth trends look encouraging for central banks – and investors

Second quarter growth data for the Eurozone on Tuesday reaffirmed the gradual uptick in the region’s trajectory relative to the pace seen across 2023, with quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth slightly higher than expectations at 0.3%.

Wages continue to rein in pace of ECB rate cuts

16 Jul 2024 TwentyFour Blog

Wages continue to rein in pace of ECB rate cuts

Last month saw the European Central Bank (ECB) get their cutting cycle underway with a 25bp cut in the deposit rate to 3.75%. However, any expectations for a rapid series of reductions after the first move were tempered by President Christine Lagarde, who at the subsequent press conference was clear that the ECB could move in phases in which they left interest rates unchanged.