Wellington Management (Wellington) is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, serving as a trusted adviser to over 3,000 clients in more than 60 countries. The firm manages more than US $1 trillion*, for pensions, endowments and foundations, insurers, family offices, fund sponsors, global wealth managers, and other clients.
Wellington has been managing Australian client assets since 1996. Today, Wellington has a substantial presence in the Australian market and is entrusted to manage over A$30 billion* in assets, for clients based in both Australia and New Zealand.
Fixed income management has remained a cornerstone for Wellington’s investment strategy since its inception in 1928 and is supported by a longstanding commitment to innovation, research, and rigorous investment process.
The fixed income philosophy combines intellectual openness with team-based accountability and technology-enhanced decision-making, all within a risk-conscious framework.
The Wellington Multi-Sector Credit team brings together a deep bench of global fixed income specialists with expertise across a broad range of credit sectors.
Campe is a portfolio manager on the Broad Markets Team and lead portfolio manager on the Multi Sector Credit and Impact Bond portfolios. His focus is sector rotation — asset allocation across the major fixed income sectors — and he leads the specialist team responsible for the development of the top-down sector rotation strategy that is utilised in the Core Bond, Core Bond Plus, Impact Bond, Intermediate Bond, Long Bond, and Multi Sector Credit portfolios.
Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2000, Campe spent four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying macroeconomics and finance in a doctoral program in economics.
He received his AB in mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College (1995). In addition, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
As a fixed income portfolio manager, Rob develops strategic and tactical investment strategies using both fundamental and quantitative analysis and implements those strategies in portfolios. He also focuses on portfolio construction and risk management, and is a member of the Sector and High Yield Strategy groups.
Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2007, Rob worked as a senior mechanical engineer modelling high power lasers at Lockheed Martin Corporation (2003 – 2005). Before that, he held engineering positions in the telecom and manufacturing industries (1998 – 2003).
Rob earned his MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago (2007) and his MS and BS in mechanical engineering from MIT (1998, 1997). Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society.
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