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Brian Murphy

Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets and Co-Head of Origination


  • Industry start
    1992
  • Year joined
    2004

Brian Murphy is a senior managing director and head of capital markets and co-head of origination at First Eagle Alternative Credit. Brian is a member of FEAC’s global investment committee and the investment committee of its tradable credit platform. 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, 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.