Biographies of our people
Euan Munro
Head of Multi-Asset Investing and Fixed Income
Euan is tasked with integrating the skills of the fixed income team with our multi asset investment capability to create a broad investment offering, focusing in particular on high alpha aggregate and absolute return bond products. Euan is also responsible for the management of all fixed income and multi-asset investment funds managed by Standard Life Investments. He is a member of the Global Investment Group responsible for setting the Standard Life Investments' asset allocation policy, and is a member of the Standard Life Investments Board.
Andrew Sutherland
Head of Credit and Aggregate
Andrew has 29 years' investment experience, spanning both boom and bust years, meaning he's ideally placed to manage your clients' assets. Andrew began his career in 1983 as a credit analyst with the company, having graduated with an MA in Mathematics and Music from the University of Glasgow. He initially took responsibility for segregated fixed pension fund portfolios, before being appointed as manager of various fixed interest funds. Today, Andrew is Head of Credit and Aggregate. He's responsible for the credit exposure within the Standard Life annuity funds, and has overall responsibility for the AAA Income and Corporate Bond Funds, in addition to other third-party mandates.
Craig MacDonald
Head of Investment Grade
Craig joined Standard Life Investments as an Investment Director in 2002. He now manages the European investment grade team as well as being responsible for a range of third party European and sterling corporate bond funds. In addition, he has been heavily involved in developing and articulating the investment grade credit process.
Erlend Lochen
Head of US Credit & Global Head of High Yield
Erlend joined us in 2001 as an Investment Director – Credit. Prior to joining us, he worked with a number of companies in the credit arena, including Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch. In 2007, Erlend was appointed Head of High Yield and in 2009, he moved to our Boston office to establish our US credit team.
Jonathan Gibbs
Head of Real Returns
Jonathan joined Standard Life Investments in 2002 and has over 20 years' of investment experience. He has championed the development of a suite of global and European inflation products to broaden and deepen the real returns offering of the company, and has played a high profile role in publicising this growing asset class. He and his team have developed one of the longest and most consistent performance track records in this area. Jonathan is a frequent conference and media contributor, and has played a key role in developing our wider fixed income process, as well as communicating this to clients and investment consultants.
Philip Laing
Head of Rates
Philip joined Standard Life Investments in 2001 and has over 20 years investment experience. He is responsible for co-ordinating the management of the Government Rates team with specific fund responsibilities covering institutional pooled bond funds, segregated bond mandates and Standard Life Group funds. He also contributes to the management of the aggregate bond funds with additional input into the global absolute returns process. Philip is heavily involved in the development of our Rates team process and marketing our capabilities to consultants and third party clients.
