Peter Gunning
Chief Investment Officer
- B.Ec., Economics, University of Sydney, 1988
- Master of Economics and Econometrics (Hons), University of Sydney, 1991
- CFA Charterholder, Association for Investment Management and Research, 1999
Peter directs Russell's investment management and research activities in the Asia Pacific region. His responsibilities include the oversight of investment research in the region as well as the management of Russell clients' Australian, New Zealand, Japanese and Australasian equity and fixed interest portfolios. Peter travels extensively to meet with investment managers who are evaluated and monitored as part of Russell's manager research process. He joined Russell's Sydney office in 1996.
Prior to joining Russell, Peter was with the funds management arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia where he held positions in risk and equity portfolio management. Earlier in his career he worked as a financial markets economist and prior to this was a fixed-interest options trader on the floor of the Sydney Futures Exchange.
Peter is a lecturer for the Securities Institute of Australia, where he teaches courses in asset allocation, applied portfolio management, and interest rate markets and risk management. He is also a member of the Q-Group(Institute of Quantitative Research in Finance Inc.), an organisation promoting the use of and interest in quantitative techniques. He has been a member of the Australian S&P/ASX Index Advisory Panel since its inception in 1998. He also serves as a director of the North Shore Heart Research Foundation.
