Chris Joye

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Christopher (Chris)

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Chris Joye is one of Australia's preeminent economists, policy advisors and fund managers. He is the Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Senior Portfolio Manager of Coolabah Capital Investments, a funds management business with over $7 billion under management. He leads the portfolio management efforts of the firm that has produced one of Australia's top short-term fixed interest capabilities. Joye is also a regular contributor to The Australian Financial Review and regularly consults and advises governments and some of the most senior decision makers in the country, including the Prime Minister and Treasurer. Previously, he worked for Goldman Sachs in London and Sydney, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and founded the award‐winning research/investment group, Rismark International.

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Coolabah Capital Investments is a leading global active fixed-income manager with over $10 billion in funds under management.
Joye is responsible for investment decisioning, portfolio management, research and asset pricing, and general business management, running a large team of portfolio managers and analysts.
In 2019, CCI was selected as one of FE fundinfo’s Top 10 “Alpha Managers” based on his risk-adjusted performance throughout his career across all asset-classes.

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In 2008, the Australian Government invested $15 billion behind a policy proposal developed by him to provide liquidity to the Australian RMBS market to mitigate the effects of the GFC.
In 2009, he was invited by the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations to advise the Obama Administration on the United States housing crisis.
In 2019, the Australian government committed $2 billion to invest in securitized SME loans on the basis of a policy proposal he developed for the Treasurer at the time to enhance competition and liquidity in the SME finance sector.

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