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QIC braces against recession risks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
As the manager of the Queensland government's long-term financial interests and a quasi-sovereign wealth fund, QIC can avoid the painful APRA performance test. This is a tremendous advantage for Allison Hill, QIC's state chief investment officer ...

VFMC names head of equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has hired from HESTA to fill the role of head of equities. Stuart Birkett has been an investment manager with HESTA since 2019. Most recently he led international equity and active currency investments but previously ...

Future Fund appoints alternatives, credit heads

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2022
... joined in February 2014, coming from California Public Employees Retirement System where he spent 13 years as an absolute return portfolio manager. "Craig has made a valuable contribution to the agency over a number of years, we wish him every success ...

VFMC appoints head of investment risk, absolute returns

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2022
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has confirmed the appointment of a head of investment risk and absolute returns, as of July 1. VFMC has promoted Mark Aarons who joined the firm in 2018 and has held positions such as head of investment risk, acting ...

VFMC grows fixed income team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
Victorian Funds Management Corporation has added to its fixed income team, appointing a portfolio manager from Mason Stevens. Jesse Imer joined the investment giant last month as portfolio manager, fixed income. He was previously a fixed income portfolio ...

Boutique takes over Mason Stevens fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... the Mason Stevens Credit Fund. Torica Capital took over the fund last month, subsequently renaming it the Torica Absolute Return Income Fund. Mason Stevens remains the responsible entity of the fund. Fixed income and credit manager Torica Capital launched ...

Investors Mutual, Vaughan Nelson partner

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... then revert back to that three to 6% return and we've found over 10-year periods where we generate the same absolute return no matter what. "We're in a period where the index is going to start falling further away. I mean, we know this right ...

Yarra adds market neutral fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... Yarra Market Neutral Fund. In doing so, it has welcomed portfolio manager Andrew Smith to its team; he has run the absolute return fund since its inception in August 2016. "We are thrilled to welcome Andrew Smith to Yarra and confirm the launch of the ...

L1 Capital portfolio manager leaves to start family office

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... product in 2008, L1 now has 40+ staff across three continents managing some of the best performing long only and absolute return funds anywhere in the world." Margolin also thanked fellow colleagues and L1 founders Mark Landau, Raphael Lamm and Joel ...

GAM loses insto mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... was also fined $400,000. Haywood was at the centre of a 2018 investigation that resulted in GAM's range of absolute return bond funds liquidated. The investigation apparently focused on Haywood's risk management and record keeping processes and ...