CT (Lux) - Credit Opportunities 8GH (GBP Accumulation Shares)

Fund manager biography

Alasdair Ross is Head of Investment Grade Credit, EMEA, with responsibility for our UK and European investment grade corporate credit teams based in London. Alasdair is lead portfolio manager across various global, euro and UK corporate credit portfolios including Threadneedle (Lux) Global Corporate Bond Fund, CT European Corporate Bond Fund, CT UK Corporate Bond Fund and is also deputy portfolio manager on Threadneedle (Lux) Credit Opportunities. Alasdair’s investment background is as a fundamental, bottom-up, investment grade credit analyst. Between joining the company in 2003 and becoming a portfolio manager in 2007, he had responsibility for covering the TMT, utility and energy sectors, as well as the sterling whole business securitisation sector. Prior to joining the company, Alasdair worked at BP plc in a rotation of commercial roles. Alasdair has a first class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Fund manager biography

Roman Gaiser is the Head of Fixed Income and High Yield, EMEA. He manages the Threadneedle High Yield Bond, European High Yield Bond and European Short Term High Yield Bond funds as well as a number of other funds and institutional mandates. He is also co-manager of the Threadneedle Credit Opportunities Fund. Based in London, Roman has 22 years experience of European Corporate Credit and 20 years experience in running European High Yield portfolios. Roman worked at the company before as a High Yield portfolio manager between 2005 and 2011 re-joining the company in 2018. Since 2011 he was Head of High Yield at Pictet Asset Management where he was in charge of its European High Yield and European Short-Term High Yield bond strategies. Previously he has worked at F&C in London. Roman holds a post-graduate degree from Dauphine University of Paris, a Diploma in Economics from the University of Hamburg (HWP) and a diploma in business management from EDC, Paris. He also has a CeFA.