MLC has further expanded its investment management team with the appointment of Stuart Keighran to a newly created role of Portfolio Manager, Property and Unlisted Assets.
Stuart takes responsibility for MLC’s property and unlisted asset strategies and will undertake research into global and domestic listed and unlisted property, and infrastructure. He has responsibility for selecting the managers across all of MLC’s property and unlisted asset investments.
Stuart joins MLC after 9 years with Alliance Bernstein. For the last five years he was with Bernstein Value Equities where he was CIO Australian Listed Property and Asia Pacific Regional Research Coordinator for the firm’s real estate equities strategies.
Stuart brings more than 15 years of experience in both listed and direct property to MLC. As a listed property portfolio manager, he has an impressive track record with consistent first and second quartile performance according to Mercer surveys.
Dr Susan Gosling, MLC’s acting chief investment officer said, “MLC continues to enhance it multi-manager investments capability and strengthen its research team as part of the focus on expanding our asset management business.“The creation of this portfolio manager role provides MLC Investment Management with a dedicated portfolio manager for property investments. This is in addition to our other portfolio managers for domestic equities, global equities, fixed income, private equity, and alternatives,” said Dr Gosling.
Stuart’s appointment is one of a series of high profile recent hires at MLC that includes Nicky Richards, Michael Karagianis and Stefano Cavaglia.
Stuart takes up the role today and is based in MLC’s North Sydney office.
