Gary Kirk

Partner, Portfolio Manager

Gary spent the first 20 years of his career as a consistently successful proprietary credit trader before becoming a portfolio manager, during which time he traded the complete range of fixed-income securities and derivative products. Gary is one of the 7 founding partners of TwentyFour and a member of the four-strong portfolio management team where his primary responsibility is the co-management of the Firm’s Monument and Dynamic Bond Funds as well as a number of bespoke portfolios for institutional clients.

Before founding TwentyFour, Gary was a partner and portfolio manager at Synapse Investment Management. Prior to this Gary was Head of European Credit trading at Wachovia Bank NA, where he led a successful proprietary trading group focused on European & Asian credit products.

Gary’s investment banking career began in 1987 in the Corporate Finance & Syndicate group at Daiwa Securities where he created structured bonds for Asian investors as well as becoming one of the pioneers of the asset swap market. Between 1993 and 2000 Gary was Head of Credit Trading at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he was at the forefront of the development of the credit derivative market and a member of the professional market panel involved in the first standardised ISDA document.

Prior to joining Wachovia, Gary was Head of Trading at CDC Ixis, running a group of 10 traders based in London, Paris & Frankfurt.