Aura Funds Management has appointed a former Challenger executive to lead its property credit fund. : Shaun Fernando is a new director and portfolio manager for the firm's real estate credit strategy in Australia and is based in Sydney. Fernando was an associate director at Challenger for one and a half years within real estate debt responsible for originating, structuring and distributing debt products. Prior to this, Fernando spent five years at Gresham Partners as a property manager. He has over 12 years' finance management experience working for GE Capital, Nestle and KPMG.