John Aylward - Founder, Chief Investment Officer

Lawrence Xu

Portfolio Manager, Financials

Lawrence Xu is a Portfolio Manager at Sona Asset Management. Lawrence joined Sona in October 2025 with 10 years of financials markets experience. Lawrence joined Sona from HSBC, where he was Head of European Financials Credit Trading, while specialising in market making subordinated financials debt. Prior to HSBC, Lawrence ran the financials desk at Goldman Sachs, having joined in 2017 from Deutsche Bank. Lawrence holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.