The big UK-based hedge fund manager CQS has recruited a senior international business manager with extensive Australian experience.
Martin Harris has joined CQS in London to head up international sales, after leaving a similar role at Fidelity International earlier this year. Harris previously held senior positions with Colonial First State and what is now UBS Asset Management in Sydney. The founder of CQS, Michael Hintze, is an expatriate Australian. The firm has about $A12 billion under management.
There is one investment area where Insignia’s $180 billion super arm has not lost money for the past 17 years, which is what it calls the insurance-related investments. The alternatives strategy is gaining popularity among asset owners due to its diversification benefit, but Insignia’s super and asset management investment chief Dan Farmer warns it is a space where investors can suffer if they “stumble in without doing the homework”.
Darcy SongJanuary 23, 2025
