VicSuper extends investment team
Victorian public sector-based fund, VicSuper has further beefed up its internal investment capability, announcing two new appointments this week.
The fund announced it had appointed Kevin Wan Lum as head of equities and alternatives stating that he would be responsible for managing a combined portfolio of over $10 billion.
The fund also announced that it had appointed a new investment risk specialist, Effie Tsiaousis who will be responsible for running the risk model in the BlackRock Aladdin system.
Lum was previously portfolio manager, equities and property with Ibbotson Associates, prior to which he was portfolio manager, implemented solutions with QIC.
Tsiaousis previously worked for Milliman as a financial risk consultant and had earlier worked on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in equity derivatives.
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