Stuart heads up Portfolio Management for Private Credit on a global basis, with current AUM in excess of £32bn equivalent.

He joined L&G in 2018, has been a financial markets practitioner for over 25 years and is a member of L&G Asset Management’s Senior Leadership Team. 

At L&G, Stuart is responsible for: overall management of the PM function, for both insurance and pension clients; acting as senior client liaison and providing independent credit judgement on the underwriting of financings across Corporate, Alternative, Infrastructure and Real Estate debt asset classes.

He oversees and guides portfolio construction, is engaged in setting overarching investment theses for mandates and helps establish new funds/strategies.

Prior to joining L&G, Stuart worked for NYL Investors as Managing Director and Head of International, establishing their overseas investment management office in London. Here he led a team responsible for the investment, portfolio and asset management of non-North American investments with AUM of more than $10bn.

Prior to this, Stuart spent 11 years at NatWest, both in the UK and US, where he helped European issuer’s structure and raise long-term private finance from the institutional debt markets. 

Stuart has a PhD and BA (hons, first) from the University of Southampton. He also holds and Executive MBA (Distinction, Directors’ Award) from the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, an MSt from the University of Oxford, and FCT from the Association of Corporate of Treasurers.

From a non-execitve perspective, Stuart is a director of a finance company and has previously acted as member of a UK university’s finance committee.