Meet George

George Curtis

Portfolio Management

9 years investment experience

London

TwentyFour Asset Management LLP

8th Floor, The Monument Building, 11 Monument Street

EC3R 8AF London

United Kingdom

George joined TwentyFour in early 2015 as a member of the Multi-Sector Bond team. He is a member of the Portfolio Management team with his primary responsibilities being to help manage the firm’s Multi-Sector Bond portfolios. He is a CFA Charterholder and member of the CFA Society UK.

Prior to 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.

Insights

Market Update 21 Oct 2020 by Gary Kirk George Curtis

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund Update – October 2020

Partner and Portfolio Manager Gary Kirk and George Curtis from the Strategic Income portfolio management team provide an update on the TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund.

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Market Update 19 Oct 2020 by George Curtis

Multi-Sector Bond Quarterly Update – October 2020

George Curtis discusses Q3 performance for credit markets and provides his outlook for the rest of the year.

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Market Update 17 Sep 2020 by George Curtis

High yield bonds and defaults

George Curtis discusses high yield and default rates.

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TwentyFour Blog 13 Jul 2020 by George Curtis

Companies Unlikely to Underperform in Q2 Earnings

Ultimately, while Q2 will be a bad quarter for many companies even if they outperform expectations, in our view it is not the real driver of spreads at this stage.

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TwentyFour Blog 18 Jun 2020 by George Curtis

Central Bank Liquidity Will Dampen Default Cycle

The European high yield market has shown remarkable resilience in the face of what will likely go down as one of the sharpest and most severe recessions in history. The benchmark iTraxx Xover index (a widely used proxy for Euro HY credit risk) has tightened from an intraday high of 730bp in March to 342bp earlier this week, a retracement of almost 75% from the January lows of approximately 200bp.

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TwentyFour Blog 15 Apr 2020 by George Curtis

HY Demands Caution Through Riskiest Phase

The European high yield sector has seen a sharp correction from its highs earlier this year, with the Crossover index moving from a tight of 203bp in January to an intraday wide of 730p on March 18 (by this morning it had also seen a retracement of around 50% to 470bp).

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