Paul McNamara

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Paul McNamara
GAM (Luxembourg) S.A., GAM Fund Management Ltd
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Paul McNamara is an Investment Director, and is the lead manager on emerging market debt strategies, currency long only and hedge fund strategies. Paul McNamara is an Investment Director, and is the lead manager on emerging market bond and currency long only and hedge fund strategies. He joined GAM following its acquisition of the fixed income and foreign exchange specialist, Augustus, in May 2009, where he started managing most of the funds he runs to date. He joined Augustus (then Julius Baer Investments Limited) in 1997 from the Export Credits Guarantee department of the UK Government Economic Service, where he was an economist. He began his career as a lecturer. Paul McNamara holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and is a CFA charterholder. He is based in London.

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Annualised total return over 24.6 years

+6.1%

Cumulative performance (% growth)

	1 year	3 years	5 years	7 years	10 years
Paul McNamara	4.3	5.9	2.9	11.4	35.6
Peer Group Composite	7.1	5.1	4.2	8.8	30.9
Over / Under	-2.8	0.8	-1.3	2.6	4.7

Total return for Paul McNamara

Discrete calendar year performance : Paul McNamara

Discrete performance

	0-12m	12-24m	24-36m	36-48m	48-60m	60-72m	72-84m	84-96m	96-108m	108-120m

Paul McNamara	4.3	7.9	-5.8	-3.2	0.2	8.5	-0.2	-4.8	35.7	-6.0
Peer Group Composite	7.1	4.1	-5.7	-1.7	0.7	6.5	-1.9	-1.0	26.1	-3.6
Over / Under	-2.8	3.8	-0.1	-1.5	-0.5	2.0	1.7	-3.8	9.6	-2.4

Performance vs peer group composite: Paul McNamara

How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.

Overall markets

Outperformed peer group composite

4 years

out of a possible 10

Overall markets

Underperformed peer group composite

6 years

out of a possible 10

Rising markets

Outperformed peer group composite

3 years

out of a possible 5

Falling markets

Outperformed peer group composite

1 year

out of a possible 5

Funds currently managed

Fund	Sole/Co-managed	Sector	Periods

GAM Local Emerging Bond	Co-managed	FO Fixed Int - Emerging Markets	since Apr 28 2000 to present
GAM Star Emerging Market Rates	Co-managed	FO Absolute Return	since Apr 13 2010 to present
GAM Emerging Bond	Lead manager	FO Fixed Int - Emerging Markets	since Mar 08 2019 to present
GAM Emerging Markets Opportunities Bond	Lead manager	FO Fixed Int - Emerging Markets	since Mar 08 2019 to present

Funds managed previously

Fund	Periods

GAM Emerging Market Rates Hedge	since Nov 01 2004 to fund close
GAM Star Local EM Rates and FX	since Jun 01 2011 to Nov 29 2012
GAM Multibond- Emerging Markets Inflation Linked Bond	since Mar 08 2019 to fund close