Marcus Barnes
Head of Portfolio Management of Mizuho Investment Management (UK) Ltd.
Mr Barnes joined in 2004 from Babson Capital Europe where he worked on the portfolio management of a series of leveraged loan / high yield bond cashflow arbitrage CLO funds (Duchess I,II & III). Prior to joining Babson, Mr Barnes worked in the risk management area at Nomura International specialising in fixed income derivatives. Mr Barnes holds a BSc (Hons) in engineering and is a qualified accountant (FCCA). Mr Barnes heads up portfolio management for all the Harvest funds, being responsible for all aspects of macro portfolio optimisation and asset allocation, secondary trading, ensuring the respective Harvest portfolios are individually and collectively maximised in terms of return, diversity and risk. He is also responsible for launching new funds, including deal structuring to ensure maximum programme flexibility and capacity for procurement, note coverage and investor returns.