Rob Ford

Partner, Portfolio Manager

Before moving into portfolio management, Rob had a highly successful career as a fixed-income trader covering a broad range of instruments over a period of more than 20 years, including corporate bonds, gilts and asset-backed securities. Rob 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. Rob also sits on the Tripartite Technical Group (HMT/BOE/FSA) and the PCS Working Group, where he is Co-Chair of the Credit-Card/Consumer Asset Committee.

Before founding TwentyFour, Rob was a partner and portfolio manager at Synapse Investment Management. Prior to this, Rob spent over 20 years at Barclays Capital (formerly BZW) in London, where he was latterly a Managing Director and Head of European ABS Trading.

Rob has been trading asset-backed securities since their inception in the late 1980s and is one of the market’s leading authorities on the sector. Rob has also managed in other trading areas including establishing and running Barclays Capital’s highly successful LIBOR credit trading unit. As well as trading asset-backed securities, Rob has also traded corporate bonds and gilts. In his very early days he traded LIFFE futures and options.