Fund manager

Daniel McKernan

Daniel joined SWIP in February 2011 to work with the Corporate Bond team to drive the strategy and performance of SWIP’s UK and Credit offering. Daniel is responsible for managing the investment grade credit research and institutional investment management teams. He also has direct responsibility for a number of large credit mandates.

Daniel has over 20 years’ investment management experience as a fixed income credit fund manager. He joins SWIP from BlackRock where he was Director of Fixed Income and a senior Credit Portfolio Manager. Daniel was with Blackrock for five years where he has established a strong track record as a senior credit fund manager. He was responsible for the management of a number of high-profile retail portfolios as well as a number of major institutional accounts.

Prior to this, Daniel was Head of Credit at Aegon Asset Management having previously also worked at Britannia Investment Management, now Ignis and Norwich Union Investment Management, now Aviva Investment Managers.

Daniel holds a BSc (Hons) in Banking and International Finance.

Mark Munro

Mark is responsible for managing a number of institutional funds in the corporate bond team. Previously in his role as an analyst Mark was responsible for providing company research and trade ideas for the credit team. He has also worked as an analyst on the UK small cap equities team.

Before joining SWIP, Mark spent four years working in the derivatives market, trading futures electronically on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Mark is a CFA charterholder and has the Investment Management Certificate. He is a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from the University of Edinburgh.