Gordon IP CFA
Chief Investment Officer - Fixed Income
Mr. Gordon IP is Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income of Value Partners, where he oversees the firm’s credit and fixed income investments and portfolio management. He has 29 years of experience investing across fixed income sectors. Mr. IP joined Value Partners in August 2009 as a Fund Manager and was promoted to the roles of Senior Fund Manager and Investment Director in 2015 and 2016, respectively. He was promoted to Chief Investment Officer in July 2017 and later appointed as Co-Chief Investment Officer in January 2023.
Over the years, Mr. IP has received numerous industry accolades, including the CIO of the Year (Fixed Income) in the regional category and the market awards (Hong Kong) category, respectively, by Insights & Mandates Professional Investment Awards 2020, Fund Manager of the Year – Fixed Income High Yield (Greater China) by The Asset Triple A Awards 2019, Manager of the Year (High Yield Fixed Income) by Benchmark’s Fund of the Year Awards 2018 and 2017. In addition, he was selected as one of the highly commended Astute Investors in Asian G3 bonds in Hong Kong, awarded by The Asset Benchmark Research Awards 2019. He was ranked among The Top Astute Investors in the same category since 2014.
Prior to joining the firm, he was a Director at HSBC Private Bank in Hong Kong, overseeing its fixed income advisory business. Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2008, Mr. IP served at Prudential Fixed Income Management in the United States for four years, specializing in relative value and credit analysis of securitized products. Besides performing security selection, he was also involved in the day-to-day management and performance attribution of fixed income portfolios. Prior to Prudential, he was a Vice President in Fixed Income Research at Salomon Smith Barney in New York, contributing to the analysis and structuring of active as well as passive fixed income portfolios for many Fortune 500 companies, sovereign wealth funds and Asian government agencies. Mr. IP started his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs’ fixed income, currency and commodity division in Hong Kong in 1995.
Mr. IP holds a Master’s degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Master’s degree in Engineering from Cornell University in the United States. He is a CFA charterholder.