AUSTRALIAN UNITY FUNDS MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Regional Account Manager - VIC / TAS / WA
Job Titles:
- Chief Investment Officer - Cash & Fixed Interest
- Chief Investment Officer / Co - Founder of Altius Asset Management
- Senior Investors
Bill has over 35 years of experience and is highly regarded in fixed interest asset management.
Prior to co-founding Altius in 2011, Bill was with Aberdeen Asset Management, where he was head of Australian fixed income and the chief executive officer. He has also worked as head of fixed income for Schroder Investment Management and Deutsche Asset Management.
In his many investment roles, Bill has built successful fixed income businesses by developing proven investment processes and assembling strong investment teams.
Bill's career in investment and financial services began in 1984 with the Treasury Corporation of Victoria as a fixed income portfolio manager. He has a long working relationship with both Chris Dickman and Gavin Goodhand, formed over many years.
Bill holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Portfolio Manager / Co - Founder of Altius Asset Management
Chris has over 30 years of experience in investments and financial services, with particular expertise in fixed interest.
Before co-founding Altius, Chris was with ANZ Bank as director of the fund's management and public sector business.
Prior to this, he worked as director, fixed income at Credit Suisse Australia and head of Australian institutional fixed income and money markets at Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He has also been a fixed income dealer at Deutsche Bank Australia, and dealer and portfolio manager at National Australia Funds Management. He has particular experience in new issues in debt capital markets, and debt and derivatives sales.
He holds a Bachelor of Economics from La Trobe University in Victoria, is accredited by the Australian Financial Markets Association and is a member of the Institute of Company Directors.
Job Titles:
- Regional Account Manager - QLD / SA
Job Titles:
- Senior Portfolio Manager / Co - Founder of Altius Asset Management
Gavin has over 30 years of experience in fixed income markets, and was most recently with QBE Asset Management's fixed income team as senior portfolio manager.
Prior to this, he held roles at Aberdeen Asset Management and Deutsche Asset Management as a senior portfolio manager, responsible for credit and interest rate portfolio management.
Gavin first worked with Bill Bovingdon at Treasury Corporation of Victoria, managing cash and fixed income investments, and has also worked with him at Aberdeen and Deutsche. His other experience includes dealer/portfolio manager of short-term investments at Axiom Funds Management.
Gavin holds a Master of Business in Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Job Titles:
- Credit Analyst
- Head of Credit Research
Kirsten Lee joins the Altius team as a credit analyst.
Prior to joining Altius in 2017, Kirsten worked with Moody's Investors Service for over 7 years as a credit analyst covering investment grade and high yield companies in the corporate finance group, across a range of sectors. Kirsten also has a further 5 years of experience in corporate legal and tax consulting with KPMG and legal firms.
Kirsten holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Sydney and is a chartered accountant.
Linh is an experienced Credit Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Strong finance professional with a Bachelor Degree in Business focused in Banking and Finance from Nanyang Technological University. Linh joined Altius Asset Management in 2023.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager Communications
Job Titles:
- Regional Account Manager - NSW / ACT
Vincent joined the Altius team in May 2019 as senior portfolio analyst. Vincent is responsible for the management of Altius cash and short-term debt portfolios, as well as quantitative research and modelling.
Vincent has over 10 years of experience across actuarial, asset allocation and fixed income portfolio management. Vincent's fixed interest experience includes global rates, FX and credit portfolios.
Before joining Altius, Vincent was senior portfolio analyst at AMP Capital.
Vincent holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University and is a CFA charterholder.