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.

Insights

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10 May 2021 TwentyFour Blog

Is Shunning Coal a Good Policy for Capital Markets?

As long as coal usage is not illegal, a private buyer of any origin will be able to purchase these assets cheaper and run them for as long as possible with no regard for ESG matters.

18 Sep 2020 TwentyFour Blog

BoE Buying Dampens Volatility in GBP Credit

The Bank’s ability to dampen market volatility has certainly been a comfort to fixed income investors; over the last month £ IG spreads have moved in a range of just 4bp and ended tighter than they started, which compares rather favourably to the 5% peak-to-trough swing in GBP-USD over the same period.

7 Aug 2020 TwentyFour Blog

Starved of Income

With BP slashing its dividend this week, we have now seen 52 of the FTSE 100 companies suspend or cut their dividends this year.

24 Apr 2020 TwentyFour Blog

Did Treasuries Know Something Equities Didn’t?

Although we are very much still in the grip of COVID-19’s impact, it has now been a month since the equity market’s trough and now would seem an opportune time to dissect some of the price action that preceded the unparalleled market turmoil in March.

9 Apr 2020 TwentyFour Blog

Primary Bond Markets Escape Lockdown

It has been a positive sign for us that despite lockdowns being enforced in most of the major economies around the world, in the last two weeks several issuers have managed to successfully raise new debt via the primary market.

The Comeback of Corporate Hybrids

3 Oct 2018 TwentyFour Blog

The Comeback of Corporate Hybrids

With September now behind us, colder mornings and darker nights approaching it seems an opportune time to take stock of how the primary market reopened this year after its traditional summer lull.