Our People

George Bishay

Head of Credit & Sustainable Strategies - Portfolio Manager, Regnan Credit Impact Trust

Income & Fixed Interest

About George

George’s investment management career spans over 30 years with Pendal and its predecessor firms. He is responsible for management of credit, fixed interest and short term income portfolios, including Pendal’s highly regarded Sustainable Australian Fixed Interest Fund, Short Term Income Securities Fund and Credit Impact Trust.

George holds a wealth of experience in portfolio management and credit analysis. He has also worked across numerous fixed income, credit and money market portfolios in portfolio management, credit analysis and dealing roles for 27 years. Prior to this George worked in an accounting role for three years.

In 2019 George was awarded the Alpha Manager status by Money Management’s parent, FE fundinfo, in recognition of his career-long performance in the asset management industry. George was one out of 11 Australia-based investment professionals included in this list of esteemed professionals across multiple asset classes, after being assessed on his ability to create risk-adjusted alpha (outperformance) over his entire track record.

George obtained a Master’s degree in Business (Finance), a Bachelor’s degree in Business (Accounting & Finance) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

Income & Fixed Interest Team

Oliver Ge
Steve Campbell
Tim Hext
Amy Xie Patrick
Murray Ackman
Anna Hong
Lachlan Fursman, CFA
Terry Yuan

About Rema

Rema Elias is an Investment Analyst in the Multi-Asset team for Perpetual Asset Management Australia. In this role, she will assist with the portfolio management of smart beta portfolios and the implementation of tactical asset allocation positions.

Rema joined Perpetual Asset Management Australia in July 2014, having previously managed the Performance and Analytics team at BNP Paribas. Prior to this, she was a Senior Performance Analyst at RBC Investor and Treasury Services.

Rema has a Bachelor in Mathematics and Finance.

Multi Asset Strategies Team

Michael O’Dea
Matt Sherwood
David Hudson
Geoff Ryan
Russell Turner
Alan Polley
Rita Bodrina
Ken Phang

Rema Elias

Investment Analyst

Multi Asset Strategies

About Alan

Alan joined Pendal Group in February 2017, with extensive investment management and consulting experience. Prior to joining the company, Alan was Senior Manager, Model Portfolios and Risk Research at TCorp, with responsibility for portfolio management of over $40 billion in defined benefit and insurance multi-asset portfolios, developing TCorp’s strategic and dynamic asset allocation processes covering $80 billion in assets, and liquid alternative manager research.

Alan’s prior experience includes six years at AMP Capital in portfolio management and quantitative analysis roles. His most recent role at AMP Capital was a Portfolio Manager/Analyst within the quantitative equites team running and developing the quantitative process across Australian and Asian equities in long only and long/short form. Alan joined AMP Capital as a Quantitative Risk Analyst within the Investment Risk Team that worked to tailor and develop bespoke risk models and analytics for the various internal investment teams, as well as whole of business investment risk analysis. Alan started his career at Mercer Investment Consulting, where he was an investment consultant to some of the largest institutional clients in Australia providing investment advice as well as being actively involved in strategic and manager research functions.

Alan has a Masters of Quantitative Finance, Bachelor of Business (Finance) and Bachelor of Science (Applied Physics) from the University of Technology, Sydney, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from FINSIA, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Multi Asset Strategies Team

Michael O’Dea
Matt Sherwood
David Hudson
Geoff Ryan
Russell Turner
Rema Elias
Rita Bodrina
Ken Phang

Funds managed by Alan

Recent articles by Alan

Alan Polley

Senior Sustainable Investments Lead

Multi Asset Strategies

About Rita

Rita joined Pendal Group (formerly BT Investment Management) in April 2022 as a Quantitative Analyst under the Multi-Asset Investments team. In this role, Rita is responsible for quantitative analysis in relation to asset allocation and research to enhance and grow Pendal’s funds. Rita also assists the I&FI team.

Prior to joining Pendal, Rita worked at Commonwealth Bank where she was a Graduate and then a Quantitative Analyst. There she was responsible for the generation of insights for the Banks portfolios, by building mathematical models and performing statistical analysis. Her work also involved conducting product research, financial analysis, and industry research as an input to understanding product positioning.

Rita holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Statistics and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Monash University. Rita is also currently undertaking studies in the CFA program.