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CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Please ensure you fully understand the risks involved. CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Please ensure you fully understand the risks involved.

Aaron Bright

Aaron Bright

Assistant Portfolio Manager

London

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)