Luke joined USS in July 2009 as a Senior Investment Manager for hedge fund investments. He focuses on the sourcing, evaluation and monitoring of hedge fund investments for the USS’s alternatives programme.
Previously Luke was Executive Director at JPMorgan with responsibility for global hedge fund due diligence for structured products in the EMEA. Prior to JPMorgan Luke held senior analytical and portfolio advisory positions with several UK and North American fund of hedge fund managers. Luke's hedge fund research responsibilities have spanned global macro, fixed income relative value, credit, distressed, multi-strategy, and commodity-focused and niche strategies.
Luke serves on the AIMA Research Committee and is an active participant in its Investor Steering Committee. Luke holds BComm (Finance) and MBA degrees and is a CFA charterholder and a CAIA charterholder. Luke was also the founding Chapter Head of the CAIA London regional chapter and remains active on the London Chapter Executive Committee.