Mark is head of asset classes at VFMC, where he is responsible for leading the six asset class teams (equities, fixed income, hedge funds, infrastructure, private credit and property) within the broader investments team. He joined VFMC in 2018 as head of investment risk and has held various roles since then including head of absolute returns. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the Centre for Quantitative Finance and Investment Strategies at Monash University in Melbourne.
Prior to working at VFMC, Aarons was global head of FICC structuring at the National Australia Bank from 2010 to 2017, where he built a leading institutional derivatives structuring and sales business in Australia and the UK. He also spent four years in London with NAB working in both market risk and in front office on a rates trading desk.
Aarons holds Bachelor degrees in Law and Science (both with Honours) from Monash University and a PhD in Mathematics jointly from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He is also the co-author of a book on securitisation swaps which was published by Wiley Finance in 2019 and has published several finance papers.
