David Elms
David Elms is Head of Diversified Alternatives and a portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors. Prior to joining Henderson in 2002, he spent eight years as a founding partner at Portfolio Partners. He was initially based in Melbourne, where he managed derivatives and enhanced index portfolios, and was later seconded to Aviva in London in a corporate strategy role following Aviva’s acquisition of Portfolio Partners. Earlier, he spent three years as associate director at County NatWest Investment Management, Melbourne, where he was responsible for equities and equity derivative trading as well as quantitative research.
David received a BCom degree (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has 34 years of financial industry experience.
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Predictable unpredictability: Are Trump tariffs opening the door to alternatives?
David Elms, Head of Diversified Alternatives, explores the potential strategic advantages of multi-strategy investing in uncertain times.

Alternatives: investors can do more with their passive equity allocations
How can enhanced index strategies help to make passive investments work more efficiently in investors’ portfolios?