Aaron Bright Joined IG in 2022 as the Assistant Portfolio Manager of IG’s Smart Portfolios. Prior to Joining IG, Aaron worked as a multi-asset investment analyst covering equities, fixed income and alternatives and was responsible for generating recommendations for investment portfolios.

Aaron graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in economics and political science and holds the Investment Management Certificate (IMC).

Aaron has a variety of experience across investment management including multi-asset portfolio construction, fund research, investment and macroeconomic media commentary and strategic and tactical asset allocation.

With IG since: 2022

Trading since: 2019

Preferred trading style: Long-term investing

Most memorable trade: Loading up on Shell when the price of oil crashed temporarily during Covid. In hindsight I should have bought a lot more shares!

Favourite financial book: The Long Good Buy: Analysing Cycles in Markets – Peter C. Oppenheimer

BSc (Hons) Economics and Political Science (University of Birmingham)