Australian superannuation fund AvSuper plans to invest in Martin Currie Investment Management’s flagship global emerging markets (GEMs) strategy.
The Martin Currie team has garnered significant institutional support globally in the past few months with five mandate wins in Australia and a recent appointment by Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System (PA SERs).
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AvSuper is dedicated to the aviation and aviation safety industries. The mandate will be managed by Kim Catechis, Martin Currie’s head of emerging markets and investment manager, Andrew Ness.
Martin Currie has an experienced global emerging markets team of six with over 100 years’ combined experience of investing in GEMs. The team currently manages a total of over US$802 million of assets, with its recent win from PA SERs taking assets over US$1 billion.
Commenting on the appointment, Kimon Kouryialas, director, head of Pan Asia sales and client services, said, ‘We believe that Martin Currie’s GEMs strategy is a world-class offering and are delighted that AvSuper has awarded us this mandate.
"Kim Catechis and his team joined Martin Currie with the objective of turning the company into a leading provider of emerging markets equity management. The team have garnered significant institutional support and with a three-year track to be reached later this year, this is predicted to broaden."
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By GlobalDataThe GEMs team’s investment philosophy, developed over last 13 years by Kim and his team, builds stock-focused portfolios driven by fundamental research as the best way to exploit market inefficiencies and generate consistent outperformance. The team builds balanced portfolios with the aim that returns are driven by stock choices rather than being dependent on market outcomes.
