Oct 23 2024 97 mins 2
Nicholas Chaplin is a Director & Senior Portfolio Manager for Seed Partnerships Hybrid Income Fund. Nicholas specialises in structuring and education of financial capital with a focus on Hybrid Notes. Nick spent 12 years building and leading NAB’s hybrid and structured capital origination business. Prior to Nab, he built Westpac's Hybrid capital business For Commsec he ran a hybrid securities portfolio with over $250 million and managed the HIF investment strategy within the Paraclete Funds Management Trust, which invested exclusively in prudentially regulated securities.
Nicholas shares his thoughts on how Hybrids have evolved from 1990s, to the notable CBA PERLS to where we are today, his thoughts on the Hybrid securities space with ASIC, the role secondaries plays in this space and where he thinks markets are going. The fund was established in September 2015 and as of time of recording, the fund has an annualised average return since inception of 6.38% and for the past 12 months the fund has averaged 8.23%.
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