Attunga Capital Pty Ltd (Attunga) and subsidiares are specialist investment managers with expertise in securities and derivative products. Attunga was formed on 23 December 2005 and was granted its Australian Financial Services Licence on 29 May 2006.
On 6 November 2008 Henderson Group plc (Henderson Group) acquired a minority equity stake in Attunga. This equity stake forms the basis of a broader strategic relationship between the two companies, including a marketing and distribution agreement.
The focus of the company and the people behind it is to create long term wealth for investors, by seeking out niche asset classes and applying unique skills to deliver superior performance.
Our funds are designed to capitalise on the attractive short term and long term investment opportunities in various niche asset classes. Asset classes currently focused on include power and environmental derivatives; soft commodity and agricultural derivatives and securities; and global metal commodities and related foreign exchange and ancillary markets. Other asset classes we continue to explore are weather, emissions, renewable energy and water. A weather commodity fund is currently in development.
Attunga is Trustee and Manager of a number of Australian domiciled onshore funds and also Investment Manager for a number of offshore domiciled funds, with these funds including:
The Attunga Power & Enviro Fund and Attunga Power & Enviro (Offshore) Fund primarily invest in the power market and related derivative products, mainly focusing on the Australian National Electricity Market (ETC and OTC), but with a mandate which includes CO2 emissions, weather, gas, water and other energy and environmental related markets.
The Attunga Agricultural Trading Fund and Attunga Agricultural Trading (Offshore) Fund primarily invest in global exchange traded soft commodity and agricultural derivatives and securities, with a focus on relative value and other trading strategies.
The Attunga Metals Trading (Offshore) Fund is a multi-strategy discretionary metals trading fund looking to exploit themes, trends, events, pricing and inefficiencies and anomalies in global metal commodities and related foreign exchange and ancillary markets.
Attunga utilises the services of a range of other key outsourced service providers across prime brokerage, custody, clearing, legal, accounting, IT and compliance.
Ian Gibson: Managing Director
Previously with Fidelity Investments (HK), Potter Warburg/SBC Warburg and State Bank of NSW. Most recently with various consulting roles. Primary experience in equity research and portfolio management.
Mark Roberts: Portfolio Manager
Previously with International Power, United Energy and State Bank of NSW. Most recently electricity trading and risk consulting. Primary experience in investment, trading and risk management.
Helen Longney: Portfolio Manager
Previously with International Power and Advance Energy. Most recently electricity trading and risk consulting. Primary experience in trading and risk management.
Phillip Pyle: Portfolio Manager
Previously with Ausbulk, Comalco and the Australian Wheat Board. Most recently with Elders Australia. Primary experience in trading and risk management in physical commodity markets.
Ian Bowler: Portfolio Manager
Previously with Rand Merchant Bank and Australian Gilt Securities. Most recently consulting in training treasury and trading teams in Australia and Asia, and proprietary trading with own fund. Primary experience in trading and risk management across a range of products and markets. Ian Bowler is employed by Attunga's Singaporean subsidiary Attunga Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
Anthony Shaw: Portfolio Manager
Anthony has been involved in trading and dealing in metals for 30 years in both London and New York. The first 20 of these years were focused primarily on precious metals variously at Johnson Matthey Bankers, Drexel Burnham, Rouse Woodstock Ltd, L.I.T. America Inc and Republic National Bank of New York. The last 10 years has been focused on both base metals and precious metals variously at HSBC Bank USA, Bank of America and Bank of Nova Scotia. Anthony Shaw is employed by Attunga's Singaporean subsidiary Attunga Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd and seconded to Henderson Group.
Brendan McCarthy: Portfolio Manager
Brendan has been involved with trading (in Sydney, London, New York, Geneva and Singapore), with a focus on commodities, since 1989. Previously with MKS Capital (Australian subsidiary of a Swiss based commodity trading company), Babcock Fulton Prebon Ltd and Tradition (UK) Ltd. Most recently with Citigroup (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Division). Brendan McCarthy is employed by Attunga's Singaporean subsidiary Attunga Capital (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
James McIntosh: Portfolio Manager
James has spent the last 10 years involved in electricity markets in Australia, most recently as Head of Wholesale Electricity for AGL Energy and previously with International Power. James has had unrivalled success in the Australian physical electricity market as well as considerable experience in weather, gas and emissions markets.
Samuel Blainey: Portfolio Manager
Sam’s background lies in trading across energy and commodity markets for AGL Energy, International Power, AWB and NAB, in addition to broking electricity, weather and gas for Newedge Australia.
David Collins: Analyst
Previously at University, having earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Major Finance and International Business).
Glenn Roberts: Operations Manager
Previously with Westpac Banking Group managing back office and operational system teams, with responsibilities including risk management, compliance, staff and unit management and improving processes and relationships.
Lauren Hua: Operations Analyst
Previously with Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Westpac. Primary experience has been in operations,
supporting front office traders.
Damian Flynn: Quantitative Analysis, IT Systems and Programming Manager
Damian has been involved in the development of financial software applications (including valuation tools, risk reporting tools, trades and position reconciliation tools), in a variety of roles (with Westpac, Credit Suisse, AMP Capital and others), using C#, SQL Server and Excel.
Paul McCarthy: Non Executive Chairman
and Advisory Committee Member
Paul McCarthy is currently an executive in the Corporate Services division
of Southern Cross Equities, one of Australia's largest independent stock broking firms, working in its equity capital markets and corporate finance areas. He has extensive financial services experience across funds management, corporate investment and stock broking spanning 25 years, specialising in emerging industrial companies.
Professor Tim Flannery: Advisory Committee Member
Tim Flannery is one of Australia's leading thinkers and writers. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, he has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His books include the landmark works The Future Eaters and The Weather Makers. In 2007 Tim was honoured as Australian of the Year.
Full biography for Professor Tim
Flannery.