Dean Italia

Dean has over 20 years financial markets experience and is responsible for the management of credit at Mutual Ltd. Dean’s investment strategy focusses on relative value investing, scoring assets for yield and risk across the full opportunity set in the fixed income credit market. Dean’s key area of focus is structured credit, investing across the senior and mezzanine tranches and corporate investment grade credit. Dean manages the market risk of the credit funds via the concept of DV01 and risky DV01. Managing credit via DV01 is not as customary in the Australian market, but is the principal method used in the northern hemisphere. Dean has a Bachelor of Business (Honours) from Monash University.