Steve Krull
CFA

Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Trading


  • Industry start
    1998
  • Year joined
    2004

Steve Krull is a managing director, portfolio manager and head of trading for First Eagle Alternative Credit’s Tradable Credit team and also serves on its investment committee. Steve became part of First Eagle in 2020 upon the firm’s acquisition of THL Credit, which he had joined in 2004. Previously, he was a portfolio manager/head trader of the alternative credit strategies group at McDonnell Investment Management. Before that, Steve was a member of the bank loan asset management group at Columbia Management Advisors, serving in various roles including bank loans trader responsible for day-to-day cash management and trading activity of the group’s two mutual funds and four structured products with assets totaling $2.7 billion. He earned a BA in economics from Illinois Wesleyan University. Steve holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of Chicago.