Alternative credit investment manager Serone Capital Management has appointed of Patrick Wills as a portfolio manager within its global structured credit team.
Wills joins Serone’s London office with over 14 years of expertise in structured credit. He was most recently managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he served as global head of structured products, Group Repo Trading (SPG).
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Prior to that, he was a dedicated trader of RMBS, CMBS, and ABS. In this role, Patrick was instrumental in building the firm’s SPG repo business and established Morgan Stanley as a leader in the financing of SRTs and NPLs in Europe.
In his new role at Serone, he will be responsible for managing and growing a portfolio of structured credit assets, with a focus on public and private ABS, SRTs, and NPLs.
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Serj Walia, chief investment officer at Serone Capital Management, said: “We are delighted to welcome Patrick to our investment team. At a time of continued growth and investor demand across structured credit markets, his experience will be highly valuable as we deepen our capabilities and further support our clients.”
Wills added: “There continues to be a wide range of compelling opportunities for investors across global structured credit markets, and I am looking forward to working with the team at Serone to help identify and capture these opportunities.”
