Life at IFM' with Associate Director, Debt Investments, Lucie Mixeras
Summary
Lucie Mixeras was looking to try something new after spending eight years working in the infrastructure sector in an investment bank. IFM provided an opportunity to develop her career with a responsible long-term investor.
“During the interview process, it was clear that I would have an opportunity to contribute to meaningful work and develop my career,” said Lucie.
“Since joining, I’ve shadowed leaders in fundraising meetings and learned more about the merits of infrastructure debt and portfolio management for our institutional investor clients. I’ve also been part of discussions with
clients and have continued to build my own trusted relationships over time. I have led the deployment of our clients’ money in projects across various sectors like southern Europe renewables and waste treatment solutions in the UK,”
explains Lucie.
Through these interactions, Lucie is also deepening her skills and knowledge in relation to ESG and has been invited to speak at conferences on the role that private credit providers can play in helping companies integrate ESG and sustainability.
Focus on ESG themes amongst the investor community has grown exponentially over the past few years and is a key element of IFM’s debt investment process
says Lucie.
“I’ve been given amazing challenges and I love that it’s up to me to deliver and develop my career,” she continues.
Lucie has been an active participant in IFM’s internal mentoring program as a fantastic way to develop relationships and learn from others.
“It has been refreshing to have the opportunity to discuss career development with a mentor and receive advice from someone in a different part of the business, with the ability to take a step back,” Lucie explains.
Originally from France and now based in London, Lucie graduated from EDHEC – a business school based in Lille specialising in business and management studies. She also speaks Spanish fluently.
The idea of meaningful work with long-term investors, along with the flexibility offered at IFM was an attractive prospect for Lucie. “The purpose of IFM is to protect and grow the long term retirement savings of working people. With a growing
ageing population, the way we manage retirement savings is critical. IFM are specialists in long-term investments; we know the market, and we’re responsible investors.”
Lucie has also been able to balance work and family time thanks to IFM’s flexible work policies. 18 months after joining IFM in April 2019, Lucie took parental leave to care for her second child and used that valuable time to travel with
her young family through Europe and spend time at home in North London.
About the author
Executive Director, Head of Large Cap Active Equities
Lachlan Davis
Joined in 2016
Lachlan leads IFM Investors’ Large Cap Active Equities Team and has more than 20 years of experience in managing equity portfolios. He began his career as a graduate with Shell, then completed an MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management, which included an exchange to the Stern Business School in New York. He joined AMP Investments in 1996, as part of the Investment Solutions team headed by Dr Jack Gray with a focus on delivering innovative solutions to large institutional clients across a wide range of asset classes. This included work across Equities, Fixed Income, Hedge Funds and infrastructure. In 1997 he joined the Active Quantitative Team in Australian Equities to develop a Long-Short strategy which was launched in 2001. He was responsible, along with Mark McClatchey, for driving a number of innovations including the integration of fundamental and quantitative techniques and further research and refinement of a factor based approach to investing. The team evolved to become the Multi-Strategy Team, which encompassed Enhanced Index, Value, Quantitative, Long-Short (130/30) and Asia-Pacific Market Neutral strategies. These strategies all used a common base of factor investing and were applied over different risk tolerances, horizons and investment markets and could be tailored to the individual institutions bespoke requirements. While at AMP, Lachlan was involved in quantitative research, risk management, portfolio construction, corporate assessment, stock research, business development and management. He was a member of the AMP Global Equities & Fixed Income leadership team and the AMP Investment Committee. At IFM Lachlan is a member of the IFM Risk Committee and Equities Leadership Group. Lachlan was a Director of Scallop Credit Union during his time at Shell and a Director of Gove Aluminium Finance, an AMP/CSR joint venture, during his time at AMP.