Meet Aza

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Aza Teeuwen

Partner, Portfolio Management

15 years investment experience

London

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP

8th Floor, The Monument Building, 11 Monument Street

EC3R 8AF London

United Kingdom

Aza is a partner at TwentyFour and portfolio manager in the ABS team.

Applying his 15 years of fixed income portfolio management experience, Aza’s primary responsibility is managing the firm’s ABS funds and several institutional mandates. He is also a member of the firm’s Asset Allocation Committee.

Prior to joining TwentyFour Asset Management in 2011, Aza spent 4 years working for IMC Asset Management in Amsterdam, where he focused on the European RMBS and CLO sectors. A graduate of the University of Twente (the Netherlands), Aza holds a master’s degree in Financial Engineering & Management.

Insights

ABS Investor Update November 2022

Market Update | Watch | 1 h 1 min 3 Nov 2022 by Aza Teeuwen Douglas Charleston

ABS Investor Update - November 2022

While rising interest rates are generally positive news for European ABS due to the resulting increase in their floating rate coupons, the substantial volatility in UK government bonds recently has seen ABS spreads widen, we believe due in large part to the popularity of the asset class with pension funds as a liquid fixed income allocation alternative.

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TwentyFour Blog | Read | 3 min 27 Oct 2022 by Aza Teeuwen

Here’s why private equity is buying bonds over ‘real’ assets

With private equity firms active buyers of CLOs and CMBS in recent weeks, Aza Teeuwen explains why these investors are shunning physical assets in favour of asset-backed bonds.

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Where are CLOs trading after the Truss Tantrum?

TwentyFour Blog | Read | 3 min 5 Oct 2022 by Aza Teeuwen

Where are CLOs trading after the Truss Tantrum?

With the higher rated tranches of euro CLOs popular with UK pension funds, Aza Teeuwen looks at how the market coped with heavy selling in recent days and notes investment grade CLO bonds are now yielding close to 10%.

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BB CLOs approaching 12% yield

TwentyFour Blog | Read | 3 min 29 Jun 2022 by Aza Teeuwen

BB CLOs approaching 12% yield

Aza Teeuwen explains how market moves have impacted BB CLOs and looks at historic trends analysing their behaviour during crisis scenarios.

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Global ABS: A cloudy outlook from sunny Barcelona

TwentyFour Blog | Read | 5 min 22 Jun 2022 by Aza Teeuwen

Global ABS: A cloudy outlook from sunny Barcelona

After two COVID-hit years last week the European ABS market decamped once again to Barcelona for the 26th annual AFME & IMN Global ABS conference.

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Value has returned to AAA CLOs

TwentyFour Blog | Read | 3 min 31 May 2022 by Aza Teeuwen

Value has returned to AAA CLOs

We can debate whether the European Central Bank is behind the curve or not, but Christine Lagarde says rates will be in non-negative territory by September.

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