Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy is a managing director and senior portfolio manager on First Eagle Alternative Credit’s Tradable Credit team. He is a member of FEAC’s management committee and the Direct Lending team’s investment committee. He is also head of capital markets across the firm’s Tradable Credit and Direct Lending platforms. Brian became part of First Eagle in 2020 upon the firm’s acquisition of THL Credit, which he had joined in June 2004. Previously, Brian was a senior credit analyst/senior portfolio manager in the alternative credit strategies group of McDonnell Investment Management. Before that, he was a senior credit analyst covering telecommunications, media/broadcasting and the cable industries in the bank loan asset management group at Columbia Management Advisors. Earlier in his career, Brian was employed by Van Kampen Investments as an assistant portfolio manager for the Van Kampen Prime Rate Income Trust. Brian earned a BA in finance from Loras College.