Tunks joins Swip as director of fixed income

Swip has hired former Old Mutual head of fixed income and global macro Andrew Tunks as its interim director of fixed income.

Tunks will have responsibility for all of Swip's fixed income investment management, in addition to developing research and portfolio management. It is the group's second hire to its fixed income team in recent weeks, following the addition of corporate bonds investment director Robert Webb from Aviva last month. Swip managing director Dean Buckley says the newly created position illustrates Swip's commitment to the fixed income sector. "Over the coming weeks more than £20bn fixed income assets will transfer from Insight to Swip, bringing our fixed income assets under management t...