Robeco looks to SSGA for portfolio manager hire
Global asset manager Robeco has expanded its Australian fund management team with an equity appointment.
The firm, which has $358 billion in assets under management, has appointed Michael Lin as a senior client portfolio manager for equities.
Robeco said Lin brings “significant investment knowledge and deep expertise in quant and fundamental equity strategies” to the company.
Based in Sydney, he joins Robeco from State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) where he spent 11 years and held a similar role as a client portfolio manager for active systematic equities. He began his career in February 2014 as an investment strategist before being promoted to the portfolio manager role in 2020.
In addition to his work at SSGA, which recently rebranded as State Street Investment Management, he also worked as an investment analyst at van Eyk and BDO.
Stephen Dennis, head of Robeco Australia and New Zealand, said: “We are excited to welcome Michael to the team. His experience and insights will further enhance our ability to collaborate with our clients and deliver customised, research-backed investment solutions.”
In Australia, the firm works with distribution partner Ironbark Asset Management to offer financial advisers the SDG Credit Income Fund, an enhanced index solutions and a conservative emerging market equites product.
Last year, Robeco launched two new equity strategies focused on the climate transition and low-carbon economy.
The first fund – Emerging Markets Climate Transition Equities – focuses on the transition to the low-carbon economy and aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement, and is managed by fund managers Jaap van der Hart and Rob Schellekens.
The second – Transition Asian Equities – will focus on the climate transition and other environmental and social objectives, managed by Hong Kong-based head of Asia-Pacific equities Joshua Crabb.
Lucian Peppelenbos, climate and biodiversity strategist at Robeco, said: “With Robeco’s forward-looking frameworks, we can identify companies leading the transition and support them with financing. In this way, we foster positive change and ensure that high-emitting companies are a part of the solution. Over time this creates broad-based value, and thus provides alpha opportunities.”
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