Melanie joined Coronation in June 2002. Her responsibilities include bond portfolio management and credit risk analysis. Her previous experience includes lecturing at RAU and five years in SCMB’s Treasury division. She initially joined SCMB in the Asset Liability Management division, focusing on interest rate and liquidity risk management of the bank's internal portfolios. Thereafter, she moved to the Treasury Sales and Structuring desk where she gained significant experience structuring and marketing fixed income, credit and securitised products to institutional investors.

The portfolio has a flexible mandate with no prescribed maturity limits for the securities in which it invests. It also has a flexible duration policy and seeks to protect capital in times of bond market weakness by following a defensive asset allocation strategy. In order to achieve its objective, the investments normally to be included in the portfolio may comprise a combination of assets in liquid form, money market instruments, bonds, debentures, convertible securities, cash deposits, corporate debt, listed property, preference shares, non-equity securities, equity securities and any other securities which are considered to be consistent with the portfolio's primary objective and the Act my allow from time to time.