Senior Portfolio Manager - Fixed Income
CurrentCurrent responsibilities include :- Coverage of Australian and NZ fixed income markets.- Construction and proactive management of multi manager portfolios.- Generation of trade ideas and management of the physical/derivatives based positioning strategies incorporated within the Australian fixed income portfolios.- Oversight and "day to day" management of Australian fixed income portfolio management team.- Fixed income product development, e.g. responsible for the development of the building blocks and investment philosophy which have been central to the implementation of Russell's Australian fixed income ETF capability.- Fixed income capital market research.- Development of client deliverable thought pieces associated with portfolio management/construction, Russell methodology/process and capital markets.- Q3 2016 management determined that it was best that I re-assumed primary responsibility for manager research within the fixed income universes encompassing Australia and New Zealand.- Prior to moving into the portfolio management role held the position of Senior Research Analyst with Russell.- Primary responsibility was researching the managers within the fixed income universes encompassing Australia, Asia (ex- Japan) and New Zealand.- Over the 5+ years as a Senior Research Analyst research responsibilities also included Australian listed property trusts, New Zealand equities and alternative investments.- Responsible for Australian fixed income capital market research which resulted in papers establishing Russell's global position with respect to investments such as CDOs, CDS etc.- In January 2009 assumed portfolio management responsibilities.- From January 2009 to March 2011 (when a new research analyst was hired by Russell) responsible for management of multi manager and direct investing portfolios as well as manager research for Australia, Asia (ex-Japan) and NZ.
