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Market volatility abounds in 2016, and nowhere is this more evident in the widening spreads and distress in global credit markets.  

Moderator
David George
CAIA Australia Chapter Head
Head of Debt & Alternatives
Future Fund

Panelists
Sai S. Devabhaktuni
Head of Corporate Distressed Portfolio Management
PIMCO

Travis Schoenleber
CAIA Australia Chapter Executive
Managing Director
Cambridge Associates

 

 

David is the Head of Debt & Alternatives at the Future Fund, based in Melbourne, Australia.

 

David joined the Future Fund in April 2008 and leads a team responsible for strategy development and implementation of the debt, cash and public market alternative investment programs.  At 30 June 2014, these portfolios were valued at more than A$25bn.  This team is also responsible for management of the three Nation Building Fund

portfolios.

 

Prior to joining the Future Fund, David was a Principal at Mercer Investment Consulting in Sydney focused on researching managers in the fixed income and alternatives areas.  Previously he has held management and analytical roles at Mercer in Toronto, the Royal Bank of Canada and Integra Capital Management.

 

 

 

 SAI S. DEVABHAKTUNI,Head of Corporate Distressed Portfolio Management, PIMCO

Mr. Devabhaktuni is an executive vice president in the Newport Beach office and head of corporate distressed portfolio management. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2012, he was founder and managing principal of Monocle Group LLC, an investment firm focused on opportunities in stressed and distressed securities, post-reorganization securities and special situation equities. Previously he was one of three managing principals for 12 years with MHR Fund Management LLC, a New York-based private equity firm specializing in the distressed securities market. Earlier in his career he was an analyst with Highbridge Capital Management LLC and Nomura Securities. He has 22 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

Travis is a Managing Director in Cambridge Associates’ Sydney office. Prior to joining the Sydney team, Travis spent seven years as an investment director in Cambridge Associates’ Boston office.  He has worked with a wide variety of non-profit institutions, hospitals, pensions, insurance pools, and family offices in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, and Bermuda.  Non-profit clients include universities, colleges, independent schools, religious institutions, and foundations ranging in size from $100 million to over $20 billion. Travis advises on investment and institution specific issues such as asset allocation strategy, manager selection, investment program evaluation, liability-driven considerations, and enterprise-related objectives and constraints.

 

In addition to working with institutions and families across total portfolios, Travis specializes in constructing and overseeing hedge fund and other absolute return portfolios for his clients.  He has been a presenter at industry conferences on topics such as investing in hedge funds, constructing and managing portfolios, and risk management from a practitioner’s perspective.

 

Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in 2007, he was an equities analyst at a $20 billion pension, the Employee Retirement Systems of Texas. He was responsible for individual company research, attribution analysis, and, more specifically, the Asia Property portfolio.  As a portfolio manager with the MBA Investment Fund, LLC, he managed three equity and fixed income portfolios with $16 million in total assets. Travis also has two years of US fixed income and mortgage underwriting/securitisation experience at Wells Fargo.

 

Travis has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business and a BA from Colorado State University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternatives Investment Analyst designations.