Christopher Joye is an Australian fund manager, writer, financial economist, and former government advisor.
He is currently a contributing editor and reporter with the nation's leading finance journal, the Australian Financial Review, and a director of YBR Funds Management, which is half owned by the ASX listed Yellow Brick Road Holdings. Joye writes about economics, finance, hedge funds, defence, cyber security, media strategy, central banking policy, asset-allocation, politics, banking, and other areas in financial services and economics reform.[5] He writes regular opinion pieces but also authors news stories across a diverse spectrum of subjects from finance, technology, to national security.
Joye previously worked as a director with Rismark International, a research and intellectual property house and asset-backed securities fund manager with a large patent portfolio, a senior analyst focussing on special projects with the Reserve Bank of Australia, which is Australia's central bank, and with the investment bank Goldman Sachs & Co., in mergers and acquisitions, in both London and Sydney.[25] Yellow Brick Road, which owns a stake in YBR Funds Management, is 15% owned by Macquarie Bank and generates most of its revenues by broking home loans for Australia's four major banks.
In 2009, The Australian newspaper identified Joye as one of Australia's top 10 "emerging leaders" in its economics category.[25] In 2007 Joye was selected by The Bulletin magazine as one of Australia's "10 smartest CEOs", and, separately, by BRW Magazine as one of "Australia's top 10 innovators".[25] In February 2009, Joye was invited by the Rockefeller and MacArthur foundations to present innovative policy solutions on the US housing market's problems to President Obama's administration officials.[25]
Christopher served as a director of the Menzies Research Centre, a centre-right think-tank, between 2003-07. Prior to taking on his role with the Australian Financial Review, Christopher was one of Business Spectator and Property Observer's most popular columnists, where he led debates on housing, asset-allocation, banking, media, monetary policy, and superannuation.[25]
Joye received joint First Class honours and the University Medal in Economics and Finance from the University of Sydney, where he was a Credit Suisse First Boston scholar, SIRCA, and University Honours scholar. He studied at Cambridge University in 2002 and 2003, where he was a Commonwealth Trust scholarship recipient. He has qualified as a ski instructor in Canada and was vice-captain of the Victorian State schoolboys rugby union 1st XV in 1994.[25]