Aware Super has appointed four specialists and established a new investment risk division to drive its growth ambitions of achieving $250 billion in funds under management by 2026.
Two of the specialists would support the $155 billion fund’s macro strategies team, while the remaining two would lead the new investment risk team.
According to Michael Winchester, Aware Super’s head of investment strategy, the appointments played a key role in reinforcing the fund’s projected FUM of $250 billion by 2026, alongside its establishment of global offices.
“It is yet another example of how the creation of a world-class investment team will help drive Aware Super’s growth story to become a top-five performing super fund and global institutional investor operating at scale,” he said.
On the macro strategies team, Christopher Ellis was appointed as senior portfolio manager and Nathan Peters would fulfil the role of investment analyst.
The pair would work alongside the team to oversee the fund’s approach to active asset allocation across interest rates, FX, and equities to generate returns.
Ellis held 16 years’ experience in managing alpha strategies alongside a 25-year career in financial markets. Prior to joining Aware Super, he was a portfolio manager at Singapore-based hedge fund Rhicon and also spent 10 years at Macquarie Investment Management.
Peters brought more than 20 years’ experience in investment and manager research across the global hedge fund landscape, including his most recent role as London-based portfolio manager at Fulcrum Asset Management.
In joining the macro strategies team, he would focus on the fund’s established partnership program of external investment managers. Aware Super allocated $2 billion towards global macro and multi-asset managers to provide diversified return streams.
Additionally, the fund’s new investment risk team welcomed Sean Anthonisz as portfolio manager and Wei-Ting Pan as investment analyst. The duo recently worked together at Mine Super and would join the fund in early July 2023.
“The establishment of the investment risk team as a centre of excellence for quantitative research will help extend our frameworks for making cross-asset class allocation decisions in the best interests of our 1.1 million members,” Winchester commented.
Anthonisz would bring his 30-year career across financial markets and research in quantitative analysis and asset allocation to his new role.
Pan joined the fund with seven years’ experience as a quantitative analyst, including her recent role at Mine Super.
