Tom Ross, CFA

Tom Ross is a Corporate Credit Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson Investors, a position he has held since 2006. He is responsible for co-managing the Global High Yield, European High Yield, and European Investment Grade strategies. Prior to portfolio management, he specialised in credit trading on Henderson’s centralised dealing desk. He joined Henderson in 2002.
Tom graduated with a BSc degree (Hons) in biology from Nottingham University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 19 years of financial industry experience.
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Valuing the improving credit quality in high yield
Several of our global high yield experts assess the value that rising credit quality could have on high yield spreads.

Exploiting the two-way traffic in high yield
Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio manager, takes a drive in the auto sector to demonstrate how both upgrades and downgrades can be a source of returns.

High yield bonds: the grind tighter in 2021
Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio manager, discusses the high yield bond outlook where an improving economy should help tighten credit spreads but may spark concerns about monetary tightening.
Conditions in the high yield market
Tom Ross, corporate credit manager, discusses conditions in the high yield market, including the default outlook, the importance of monetary and fiscal stimulus and whether high yield can tolerate inflation.
Avoiding a retest
In this video Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors explains why he believes the credit spread wides of March for high yield bonds are unlikely to be retested.

The case for high yield bonds
Using a combination of eight charts and tables, corporate credit portfolio managers Seth Meyer and Tom Ross consider some of the potential risks and opportunities within the high yield sector of fixed income.

Born in a crisis
The managers of the Janus Henderson Horizon Euro Corporate Bond Fund reflect on the current COVID-19 crisis and whether there are any parallels with the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath for the European investment grade corporate bond market.
Same but different: high yield investing amid the crisis
Speaking directly from home, Tom Ross, Credit Portfolio Manager, explains how in an unprecedented crisis they are remaining true to their process within high yield investing but recognise that some things need to be done differently.

High yield bonds: dealing with volatile markets
Tom Ross, credit portfolio manager, comments on the crisis gripping markets and how the Corporate Credit team is responding in terms of positioning within the Global High Yield and Euro High Yield strategies.
Recent fallen angels — a spectre of BBB downgrades to come?
Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio manager, shares his views on fears of a surge in fallen angel bonds in 2020.
High yield: hunting in the crossover space
In this video, Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio manager, discusses the global high yield market, exploring the near term outlook, whether defaults might pick up and where they are seeing the best opportunities.

Should investors aim high in 2020?
Tom Ross, corporate credit portfolio manager, looks at the outlook for high yield bonds in 2020.