Stuart Hitchcock

Head of Portfolio Management, Private Credit at L&G

Panellist

Stuart heads up Portfolio Management (“Fund Management”) for Legal & General Investment Management’s Private Credit business on a global basis. He has been in the financial markets for over 24 years.

At LGIM, Stuart is responsible for overall management of the PM function, for both insurance and pension clients, with overall AUM in excess of £26 billion (equivalent). Stuart provides independent credit judgement on the underwriting of all new financings across Corporate, Alternative, Infrastructure and Real Estate debt asset classes. He oversees and guides portfolio construction (including credit, structure and pricing advice for fund managers) to optimise portfolio performance and resilience. He also leads setting overarching investment thesis for mandates and helps to establish new funds/strategies.

Prior to joining LGIM in January 2018, Stuart worked for New York Life Investors as Managing Director. Here he led a team responsible for the origination, portfolio and asset management of non-North American investments with AUM of more than $10bn. Before this, Stuart spent 11 years at NatWest Markets (debt capital markets), both in the UK and US.

Stuart has a PhD and BA (hons, first) from the University of Southampton. He also holds an MSt from the University of Oxford, FCT from the Association of Corporate of Treasurers, and Executive MBA (Distinction, Directors’ Award) from the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. As non-executive, he is a co-opted member of finance committee at a UK university, and Board member of a financial company.