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 32 years of financial industry experience.
Articles Written
Alternatives – all potential outcomes are on the table for 2025
Should investors consider allocating more to liquid alternatives in an era where disruption might become the norm?
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?
Can liquid alternatives strategies ride a pickup in M&A activity in 2024?
With M&A activity showing signs of a potentially significant revival in 2024, David Elms, Head of Diversified Alternatives, and Julius Bird, Client Portfolio Manager, discuss what this could mean for investors allocating to alternatives.
Alternatives – mainstream diversification for 2024
David Elms argues why a changing market outlook in 2024 should prompt investors to consider a greater allocation to alternatives.
Alternatives outlook: Seeking catalysts for change
How much of a role can a liquid alternatives strategy play in a world of heightened geopolitical uncertainty, inflationary pressures, and dramatic changes in monetary policy?
Alternatives 2022: has the bull gone far enough?
Looking ahead to 2022 and considering the value of an allocation to truly diversified strategies after a year of record-breaking market highs.
Where can investors find truly differentiated sources of alpha?
In this Q&A, David Elms, Head of Diversified Alternatives, gives insight into the role that alternatives can play in an investor’s portfolio, and considers the change in pricing of volatility as a result of COVID-19.