Timothy Kurpis, CFA
14 Years at AB|14 Years of Experience
Timothy Kurpis is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for US Investment Grade Credit. In this capacity, he is responsible for the management and strategy implementation of the firm’s US Investment-Grade Credit portfolios, which include both total-return and income-focused strategies for institutional and retail clients. Kurpis is also a member of our Responsible Investing and Canadian Fixed Income portfolio-management teams. He has partnered with AB’s Quantitative Research and Technology teams to leverage the firm’s technology innovations within fixed-income trading and research to apply a more systematic approach to AB’s credit investing. Prior to joining AB’s Fixed Income portfolio-management team, Kurpis served as head of Investment Grade Credit Trading and head of London Trading. He spent four years in AB’s London office from 2014 to 2018, building out the firm’s European trading capabilities. During his time in trading, Kurpis was instrumental in the build-out of AB’s industry-leading trading tools, including ALFA and AbbieX, as well as pioneering new trading protocols such as portfolio trading. He joined the firm in 2010 as a rotational associate. Kurpis holds a BA in economics with a minor in mathematics from Gettysburg College and is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York
Published Work
Systematic fixed-income investing is attracting increased attention but needs specialist skills and resources. Does your manager have what it takes?
Historically, investors have struggled to add meaningful alpha through security selection. A dynamic new credit scoring approach could change that.
Bond investors have been looking for an approach that delivers attractive, repeatable, uncorrelated active returns. Is their wait over?
The markets are delivering mixed messages, but company fundamentals, valuations and fund flows are all supportive of investment-grade corporate bonds.