Charlie Lanchester

BlackRock IM-Australia employs a disciplined process and analytical tools to construct portfolios from a variety of investment products across asset classes, market-caps, styles and geographies. Their enhanced-passive investment style is based mainly on an indexed approach and permits a large number of small, active stock positions in the portfolio, seeking to add value above the benchmark. The firm manages fixed-income portfolios with exposure to global bonds as well as bond portfolios denominated in various currencies. They partner with the BlackRock Solutions team to ensure standardized metrics for consistently assessing and managing risk in line with their clients' objectives.

PIML is an active, research-based manager which utilizes a fundamental, bottom-up investment process that focuses on quality and value. The firm manages money across a range of asset classes, including Australian and global equities, multi-sector strategies as well as credit and fixed income. They select stocks based on stock-specific fundamentals and then by the relative value, performing most of their research and analysis at the company level. PIML typically constructs value portfolios that invest in stocks with low price-to-book values, low price-to-earnings ratios and higher yields.