Greater Sydney Area
Siu is a Treasury professional with board experience in capital strategy, debt origination and risk management. Siu is responsible for the management of funding, interest rate and foreign exchange exposures for Igneo Infrastructure Partners.
I lead a team of treasury professionals at Igneo Infrastructure Partners, delivering capital management strategies and solutions to our clients by managing funding and market risks.
Igneo Infrastructure Partners - Part of the First Sentier Investors Group • Manage funding of circa A$830 million of debt facilities for the unlisted infrastructure funds in Australia and the US including issuance of bank guarantees and letters of credit. • Manage a FX hedging portfolio of A$3.5 billion and US$250 million (> 360 long dated FX forward contracts) for 6 hedged feeder funds in AUD and USD returns. • Work with Investment Team on deal origination/acquisition financing, provide advisory on structured finance, independent valuation and execute deal contingent hedging. • Front office negotiation, execution of debt facilities and ISDA agreements with investment bankers, financiers and derivative counterparties. • Source new funding partners and derivative counterparties including managing the credit approval process and on-boarding. • Prepare board/committee papers, quarterly investor updates, results presentations and investor queries.
• Establish Group Treasury Policy and risk parameters in relation to market risk, counterparty risk and liquidity risk. • Working closely with the Investment Management team to formulate funding and hedging strategies pertaining acquisitions and the subsequent construction for each student accommodation asset in line with the overall strategic objectives of the trust. • Ongoing market research into emerging products and financial markets to assist in the delivery of innovative and cost-effective strategies. • Front office negotiation, execution of project finance facilities and ISDA agreements with debt funding partners and derivative counterparties. • Ongoing maintenance of debt and derivative products after implementation, including confirmation, tracking of rollovers, rate set notices and compliance reporting requirements. • Prepare and review all treasury related disclosures for statutory accounts, investor updates, results presentations and investor queries.
• Sourced and procured appropriate debt and derivative instruments for the funds, ensuring they meet treasury policy risk parameters. This included the execution and negotiation of complex financing documentation and dealing in over-the-counter derivative instruments. The derivatives portfolio consisted a variety of vanilla and structured interest rate and cross currency swaps. Debt funding sources included bank debt facilities, domestic bond programs, convertible notes, asset-backed securities and USPP. • Advised on treasury-related matters pertaining to acquisitions, divestments and other significant transactions or initiatives. • Manage relationships with funding partners and credit rating agencies. • Preparation of Capital Management Committee reports. • Continual enhancement of treasury systems, reporting and risk management models.
• Formulate and implement debt and capital management strategies to optimise the performance of individual funds. • Negotiate and provide front office execution of debt and derivative instruments for the funds, ensuring they meet treasury policy risk parameters. The derivatives portfolio consists of a variety of vanilla and structured over-the-counter interest rate and cross currency swaps. Debt funding sources include bank facilities, domestic bond programs, convertible notes, asset-backed securities and USPP. • Advise CFSGAM internal clients on treasury-related matters pertaining to acquisitions, divestments and other significant transactions or initiatives. • Continual enhancement of treasury systems, reporting and risk management models.
• Provide transaction support, conduct due diligence and make recommendations on capital structures and key investment decisions. • Provide value added analysis on P&L, balance sheet and cashflows for operational and investment decisions.
• Provide transaction support, conduct due diligence and make recommendations on capital structures and key investment decisions. • Provide value added analysis on P&L, balance sheet and cashflows for operational and investment decisions.