
Managing Portfolios in a Global Crisis
Adviser portfolio managers & consultants are now responsible for $billions in Managed Account assets for individual client investors.
This shift in responsibility from fund managers to investment committees brings with it, the complex challenges of designing portfolios to meet client goals.
How are they tackling the challenges of building portfolios for 2023 and beyond?
Independent Thought is your opportunity to hear how the teams close to investor portfolios are meeting the challenges of global threats of war, inflation, growth, interest rate rises, volatile market returns, the risk of stagflation, geopolitical uncertainty and the resulting impact on portfolio returns.
The Melbourne Program address key investment themes and follows the Sydney program (which examines specific asset classes):
When:
18th October 2022
In Person Location:
Arts Centre, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
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Melbourne Conference Program
Registration & Coffee
Welcome & introduction
Keynote - Global influences on domestic equities
The opportunites that illiquid investments offer to Managed Accounts
Moderated by Francey Taylor (AMP)
Quality, Growth or Value - Where to from here?
Keynote - Why is it so difficult to beat the benchmark?
Keynote - How to incorporate Investment themes into a diversified portfolio
Where do we go for income?
Where to look in international equities?
Moderated by David McDonald (IMAP)
Is Net Zero the next asset class?
Keynote - The coming recession (Fixed interest implications)
Introducing Our Conference Presenters

Investment Specialist - IMAP

David McDonald, CFA
Investment Specialist IMAP
David's role at IMAP is focused on working to develop a community of interest among the professionals responsible for portfolio management of managed account programs. He also moderates IMAP's Podcast Series "Indepedent Thought"
He has 30+ years’ experience in financial markets. He has worked as an economist, investment strategist, and has extensive experience in equity portfolio management and analysis. He was previously the Chief Investment Strategist for Credit Suisse Private Banking in Australia.
He has worked in institutional asset management and private wealth in Australia and the UK, & started his career as an economist with the Australian government.
David holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Economics (honours) from the Australian National University.
He is a CFA Charter holder and holds the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement designation

Chief Executive Officer- Philo Capital Adviser

Brett Sanders
Philo Capital Adviser
Brett's designed & implemented managed account services since 2009, co-founding Philo Capital Advisers, (a 3rd party MDA Provider) seeing it grow to over $3.2 billion in investor FUA & FUM in just over 3 years.
The managed account service Brett and his colleagues designed for Centric Wealth spanned managed funds, listed securities and deposits and was central to the operational transformation of that national advice business.
Prior roles includes CEO and exec roles with Centric Wealth, Grove Research & Advisory and Sealcorp.

Managing Partner, Community & Social Investment - Perpetual Private

Caitriona Fay
Managing Partner, Community & Social Investment
Perpetual Private
At Perpetual, Caitriona oversees approximately $4bn in community funds across Perpetual’s work with philanthropists, non-profits and Native Title groups. Under her management, Perpetual’s clients distribute more than $100 million annually through philanthropic trusts, estates, and endowments.
Before her time with Perpetual, Caitriona has worked in government and philanthropy via The Ian Potter Foundation and The Heritage Lottery fund in both Scotland and England.
Outside of Perpetual, Caitriona is a leader in gender-wise and LGBTQIA+ philanthropy in Australia.
Caitriona is a founding board member of The Channel, Australia’s first sexuality- sex- and gender- diverse giving circle, reflecting her passion for the power of democratised philanthropy.
Caitriona is also a founding member of Melbourne’s Women’s Fund and an Australian member of the International Women’s Forum.

Senior Portfolio Manager - Betashares

Chamath De Silva, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager · BetaShares
Chamath holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from University of Melbourne and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Senior Asset Consultant, Evidentia Group

Chris Carrodus, CFA
Senior Asset Consultant,
Evidentia Group
Chris has over 18 years of experience in the investment management and wealth management industry working in investment strategy, advice, business development and legal roles in the UK and Australia.
Chris began his career as a financial services lawyer before transitioning into investment management with leading global fund manager, BlackRock. In his 12 years at BlackRock Chris held a variety of roles covering product development, multi-asset investment strategy, business development and head of alternatives investment strategy.
Before joining Evidentia Chris worked as CIO for a high-net-worth advice business in Sydney where he designed and managed a suite of model portfolios and also managed a custom portfolio of alternative investment funds.
Chris has deep experience across capital markets with a focus on multi-asset portfolio construction, asset allocation and alternative investments. Chris also has extensive experience working with advice businesses, family offices and foundations on investment strategy, portfolio construction, implementation and on-going portfolio management.
Chris is a CFA charter holder, and has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University

Senior Consultant - Frontier Advisors

Claire Casucci, CFA
Senior Consultant
Frontier
Having joined Frontier in 2018, Claire looks after a variety of superannuation, insurance and higher education clients, providing research, analysis and investment advice.
Claire also undertakes manager and investment research, focussing on liquid alternative strategies.
Prior to joining Frontier, Claire was a Senior Financial Advisor at ANZ Private in Adelaide, where she specialised in providing complex strategic and investment advice to high net worth individuals and families.
Claire completed ANZ’s Graduate Program and has also worked at ANZ in advice assurance, credit writing and transactional banking.
Claire is a CFA charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Finance from the University of Adelaide and has an Advanced Diploma in Financial Services (Financial Planning) from Kaplan.

Director - Spire Capital

Dale Holmes B Ec
Director - Spire Capital
Dale joined Spire Capital in March 2012 as an equal partner with a principal focus being developing the business strategy, building distribution and investor relations capabilities for the firm.
Dale has over 24 years of financial services experience having commenced his financial services career in 1989 with AXA and has had senior roles more recently as General Manger MLC Alliances (2000-2004) and before that with Ipac as Practice Manager (1995-2000).
Over the period of a decade at Ipac and MLC, Dale was integrally involved with their Investment teams in the development of investment communications for advisers and clients including assisting in simple communication of portfolio construction and implementation.
Dale is also the former and founding CEO of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL team, prior to that he was the GM of the Australian Football League in NSW/ACT and a member of the AFL National Executive team.

Joint Chief Investment Officer - Aequitas Investment Partners

David Berthon-Jones, CFA
Joint Chief Investment Officer
Aequitas Investment Partners
David studied Commerce, majoring in Economics at Curtin University, Western Australia.
He joined AMP Capital Investors in 2006, as a portfolio analyst, working closely with AMP’s quant, multi-asset, enhanced index and ISET teams.
He gained his CFA Charter in 2010 and was also promoted to portfolio manager.
David joined Commonwealth Private in 2012. He was responsible for the investment strategies of Commonwealth Private and the formulation of House Views across all asset classes, including the management of diversified investment portfolios.
He was promoted to Senior Investment Strategist in 2020

Portfolio Manager, Multi Asset - Lonsec

Deanne Baker
Portfolio Manager Multi-Asset - Lonsec
Deanne joined Lonsec Investment Solutions Pty Ltd (LIS) as Portfolio Manager in early 2020 and is responsible for the management of Lonsec’s multi-asset & retirement portfolios. Deanne has been with the Lonsec Group since July 2007 and holds over 20 years’ experience in managed funds research and portfolio management.
Prior to joining LIS, Deanne was Co-Head of Manager Research at Lonsec, responsible for the quality and suitability of Lonsec’s managed funds research and overseeing an award-winning team of analysts.
Deanne is a member of the Lonsec Asset Allocation and Manager Selection Committees.
Prior to joining Lonsec, Deanne spent seven years with Invesco (and its predecessor, County Investment Management) where she worked as an Investment Analyst and later, Assistant Investment Manager for multi-asset class and structured portfolios.
Deanne has also previously held roles at Barclays Stockbrokers and Legal & General Investment Management in the UK.

Head of Risk Senior Portfolio Manager - Atrium

Glen Foster
Head of Risk & Senior Portfolio Manager
Atrium
Glen has 18+ years’ experience in financial markets, predominantly in strategic positions.
Glen spent seven years as a multi-asset portfolio manager at Perpetual Investments where he was responsible for running multi-asset funds as well as strategic and tactical asset allocation, trading, risk budgeting, and quantitative modelling.
Glen also managed quantitative and smart beta strategies in the areas of developed and emerging market equities, REITs and commodities.
Prior to this Glen was a quantitative analyst in the Australian equities team for over two years where he worked on alpha signal research, risk modelling and optimisation.
Before Perpetual, Glen was at AMP Capital Investors and Willis Towers Watson (then Watson Wyatt).

Partner & Investment Committee Member - Evidentia Group

Greg Pease, CFA
Partner & Investment Committee Member
Evidentia Group
Greg has over 18 years of experience in the finance industry. His experience spans institutional asset management, sales and distribution, practice development, at a corporate level, as well as accounting and financial planning having begun his career as an accountant in a leading Private Wealth and Accounting firm.
Greg has deep experience across capital markets and has specifically gained asset class experience across listed equities, property, fixed interest, and private equity. Greg has extensive experience in assisting businesses develop their investment philosophy and then implement their approach through establishing and running investment committees whether that be at a firm or UHNW client level.
Given Greg’s experience spans advice firm client strategy, as well as investment management and dealing with asset consultants at a portfolio level, he is uniquely placed to work with Principals of advice firms to design, construct, implement, and manage tailored client portfolios. These solutions have been proven to drive significant benefits for advice firms as well as achieve superior outcomes for clients.
Greg is a CFA charterholder, and has a Bachelor of Laws, and a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) from Queensland University of Technology. Greg also holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investments from FINSIA

Chief Investment Officer Atlas Funds Management

Hugh Dive, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
Atlas Funds Management
Hugh founded Atlas Funds Management in 2016 and is the portfolio manager of Atlas Core Australian Equity Portfolio and the Atlas High Income Property Fund (ASX:AFM01).
Prior to founding Atlas, Hugh was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Aurora Funds Management and Head of Listed Securities, managing over $1 billion in managed accounts for Centric Wealth. Hugh has also previously been Head of Basic Materials at Citigroup Investment Research. In this role he covered the chemicals, building materials and steel sectors. In the 2011 Reuters StarMine Equity Analyst Awards, he was rated 5th overall in Australia for stock picking and first in the Diversified Industrials and Chemicals sectors.
Hugh has extensive portfolio management experience gained at Investors Mutual, with a successful track record managing both small and large capitalisation value funds. In 2009, one of the funds he helped manage, the Investors Mutual Future Leaders Fund, won the AFR Smart Investor Award for the best Australian small-cap fund.
Hugh started in funds management with CC&L Investment Management in Vancouver, Canada’s largest independent fund manager with C$60B under management. At CC&L he focused on asset allocation and Canadian equity analysis.
Hugh holds bachelor's degrees in both Economics and Law from the University of Sydney/the University of British Columbia, Canadian Securities Course (Honours) and is a CFA charter holder.

Senior Portfolio Manager - Russell Investments

James Harwood, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager, ESG Strategies
Russell Investments
James is a portfolio manager for Russell Investments, responsible for directly managed global equity funds. He manages funds across a range of investment strategies in global equities, decarbonisation and domestic ESG strategies.
James is Chair of the Responsible Investment Committee for RARI, our ESG ETF listed on the ASX. He also manages RARI and our other equity ETF, RDV.
Centralised Portfolio Management (CPM), factor-based strategies and after-tax investing are other important aspects of his role with James managing in excess of A$8bn across Australian and Japanese equity portfolios.
James has extensive global industry experience. He has been involved in global equity trading since 1998 and was Head of Trading at F&C Asset Management in London where he spent 7 years in senior portfolio management and trading positions. Prior to joining Russell Investments, James spent 6 years at Deutsche Bank working in the bank’s London, Singapore and Sydney offices in equity sales related positions. James joined the investment division in 2013.
BA (Hons) Financial Economics (1st Class), Coventry University, 1995
Associate of the CFA Society of the UK, CFA UK, 1998
CAIA, 2018

Head of Australian Fixed Interest - Janus Henderson Investors

Jay Sivapalan
Head of Australian Fixed Interest
Janus Henderson Investors
Jay Sivapalan is Head of Australian Fixed Interest at Janus Henderson Investors.
He is also a Portfolio Manager and manages the Australian fixed interest portfolios. His responsibilities include formulating interest rate and sector strategies employed within the portfolios and working closely with key fixed interest clients.
Jay joined Henderson in 2015 as part of the acquisition of Perennial Fixed Interest, where most recently he was partner and senior portfolio manager.
He came to Perennial in 2001, initially heading the quantitative area within the Perennial group before transitioning to the Australian fixed interest team in 2004. Prior to this, he was employed at Mercer, where he performed actuarial consulting work for superannuation clients.
Before that, he worked at AXA in an actuarial role.
Jay earned a BCom degree in actuarial and finance from the University of Melbourne. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 22 years of financial industry experience.

Chief Executive Officer - Western Asset Management

Jonathon Costello, CFA
Client Service Executive
Western Asset Management Company
Jonathon brings 14+ years of industry experience to the Melbourne Office, with a primary focus on the wealth channel.
Prior to joining the Firm in 2021, Jonathon was a Senior Investment Specialist with Walsh Bay Partners, a Portfolio Manager and Senior Investment Analyst with Australian Unity, and an Investment Analyst with JBWere.
He also served as a Business Development Manager and Investment Controller with K2 Asset Management, and began his career as a Research Analyst with Standard & Poor’s Fund Ratings.
Jonathon holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Psychology from RMIT University, and a Master of Business degree in Banking and Finance from Monash University. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, and is a CFA® charterholder

Senior Consultant - Evergreen Consultants

Kieran Rooney
Senior Consultant - Evergreen Consultants
Kieran assists with the research functions at Evergreen as well as assisting clients to establish and run managed account portfolios.
He is passionate about helping clients achieve their aims via a collaborative approach and bespoke solutions that best suit their own unique needs.
Kieran has more than 11 years’ industry experience working for HLB Mann Judd, National Australia Bank, MLC and Bluescope Steel.
Kieran has a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics/Finance) from the University of Wollongong.

Head of Client Relationships - Australian Ethical

Leah Willis
Head of Client Relationships
Leah is the Head of Client Relationships at Australian Ethical Investment, Australia’s leading ethical superannuation fund and investment manager with over $6.94 billion in funds under management.
Leah joined Australian Ethical in December 2016 and is responsible for client relationships across Australian Ethical’s intermediated channels, including financial planners, researchers, consultants and mezzanine investors.
Leah has more than 25 years’ experience in financial services distribution, including senior distribution positions with Rothschild Asset Management, BT Financial Group, Barclays Global Investors and IOOF.

Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer - Lonsec

Lukasz de Pourbaix
Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer - Lonsec
Lukasz leads the Lonsec Investment Solutions Pty Ltd (LIS) business, which harnesses Lonsec's research & portfolio construction expertise to deliver portfolio solutions to financial advisers.
Lukasz chairs Lonsec's Asset Allocation Investment Committee and is on the Manager Selection & Direct Equities Investment Committee.
Previous roles include ING Australia, BT Investment Management
Lukasz holds a Bachelor of Commerce & the CIMA designation.
Lukasz is on the board of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA).

Head of Investment Relations - Findex

Matthew Swieconek
Head of Investment Relations
For more than twenty years, Matthew has held a variety of client advisory and corporate roles across the Wealth Management industry in Australia and the UK, with a particular focus on high net worth individuals and families, as well as not-for-profit organisations.
As Head of Investment Relations for Findex, Matthew works in collaboration with the Findex Investment Team and Findex Financial Advisers to help construct and deliver the Findex investment proposition to clients.
Matthew holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).

Head of Asia Pacific ESG Business Development - S&P Global Sustainable1

Michael Salvatico leads environmental, social and governance (ESG) business development in Asia Pacific for S&P Global Sustainable1, based in Sydney.
For more than 20 years Michael has been providing investment solutions for financial markets. Over the last decade he has focused on sustainable solutions for investors, banks, corporates, regulators, governments and academics. Michael works with these organisations to understand and better Benchmark, Report, Engage, Analyse and Model ESG risks and opportunities across their organisations.
Over this time, a key focus has been climate change impacts on global economies, corporates and financial institutions, with deep experience in de-risking portfolios, identifying opportunities and reporting on baseline footprinting and scenario analysis.
Michael founded the first carbon offsetting service of its kind in 2009, that leveraged compliance markets carbon credits, with Climakind.net. Michael regularly presents at events and has been and continues to be involved in ESG initiatives including, ASFI Technical Working Group – Enhancing sustainability/resilience/stability of the financial system, PRI Fixed Income Working Group, Willoughby Council Sustainability Reference Group, IGCC - Policy Advocacy Working Group, AIGCC - Physical Risks & Resilience Working Group, HKGFA - ESG Disclosure and Integration Working Group.
Prior to joining S&P Global Sustainable1, Michael led Asia Pacific ESG Business Development for Trucost, part of S&P Global.
Michael was an Executive Director at MSCI Inc. and oversaw the company’s ESG Research in Australia and New Zealand. His career experience involves working in portfolio analytics, quantitative investment analysis and ESG research.
Before MSCI Inc., he was part of the highly rated research team at Bank of America - Merrill Lynch for nine years, where he was head of Emerging Markets quantitative analysis.
Michael received a Master of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.

Head of Adviser and Intermediary Solutions - Russell Investments

Neil Rogan
Head of Adviser and Intermediary Solutions, Australia
Russell Investments
He has over 25 years in the financial services industry having been the
General Manager Investment Bond Division at Centuria Life.
Prior to this, Neil held several senior roles at AMP Ltd including, Head of Marketing
Campaigns, Head of Product Marketing. During this time Neil lead the
changes for the introduction of MySuper in 2013.
In 2014, Neil was a NSW Council Member of the Australian Marketing
Institute. He has also chaired several Financial Services Council (FCS) subcommittees including the judging panel for the FSC/Deloitte Future Leaders Awards and served on the national judging panel for the Telstra Business
Awards.

Investment Director, Asia-Pacific abrdn

Investment Director, Multi-Asset & Investment Solutions
abrdn (asia-pacific)
He joined abrdn in May 2022 from State Street Global Advisors where he held multiple roles, most recently as Head of Investment Strategy & Research - Australia.
In this role, Raf was in charge of producing and delivering bespoke client research as well as engaging with clients across a number of investment related topics. Prior to that, Raf was a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for managing strategic, tactical and absolute return investment portfolios.
Raf graduated with a MSc in Investment Management from Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School, and holds a BA in Business Finance from the University of Durham.

Founder & Managing Director - Activus Investment Advisors

Robert Talevski
Founder & Managing Director
Activus Investment Advisors
Robert founded Activus in 2016 with the aim of supporting and enhancing Wealth Practices’ value proposition. He believes that an effective investment management structure is one that delivers alpha through multiple sources, such as asset allocation, investment manager selection, and currency management. Also, he stresses the importance of diversification through listed and unlisted assets to optimise portfolio’s risk and return.
Robert is an investment veteran with more than 27 years of industry experience across regions providing investment management and asset consulting services.
Prior to establishing Activus, Robert founded Brightstone Capital Advisors, a firm that provided investment advisory services to Australian superannuation, institutional and high net worth investors. Preceding that, he was responsible in managing the $3 billion Global Private Markets and $5 billion Global Shares portfolios at Australia's largest corporate superannuation fund.
Before founding his own firm, Robert was an Investment Consultant at one of Australia’s largest asset consulting firms providing investment advice to large industry and corporate super funds, charities, and private wealth clients totaling $50 billion. He had also spent time in London serving three of the largest investment management and asset consulting firms in the region.
Robert champions for Autism related charities and causes, and he was a Board Member of the Autism Behavioural Intervention Association.
Robert holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting & Law) from Victoria University and has a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance & Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA).

Co-founder & Managing Partner of Drummond Capital Partners

Tom Schubert
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Drummond Capital Partners
He was a member of the investment committee leading the investment strategy, manager research and multi-asset model portfolio process.
Tom holds a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, ASX Accredited Derivatives Adviser, Diploma of Financial Services.

Director - Greenwood & Co.

Vessela Tasker
Director - Greenwood & Co
Vessela Tasker launched Greenwood & Co in 2019 to assist financial advisory firms with their investment value proposition by providing portfolio management, investment governance support & marketing of their bespoke investment solutions.
Vessela offers 20 years of funds management experience gained as a Fund Manager of global & domestic beta & smart beta equity portfolios at State Street Global Advisors, a Research Equity Analyst at Investors Mutual and a Research Associate at AJO Partners, a US-based quant equity boutique based in Philadelphia, USA.
More recently, Vessela was a Fund Manager at Ironbark Asset Management where she was instrumental in helping financial advisory firms design, launch and sustain multi-asset managed accounts on designated platforms.
Vessela started her career in the United States as a corporate valuations consultant with PwC & holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance & Management Information Systems from Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA.

Practice Leader - Milliman Australia

Victor Huang
Practice Leader - Milliman Australia
Victor leads a team of portfolio managers, actuaries, & traders who design and implement investment strategies within superannuation, (re) insurance companies, ETF managers, and managed accounts.
Victor's expertise includes dynamic hedging programs, risk neutral valuation,and asset allocation plus risk management strategies for superannuation funds & pension products including modelling, market consistent pricing, and performance attribution of vanilla & exotic financial derivatives in major markets
Prior roles include National Australia Bank where he developed trading / risk reporting models for interest rated derivatives.
Victor is a Fellow, Institute of Actuaries Australia Education and holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Actuarial Studies, & Bachelor of Science, Statistics, both from University of NSW

Senior Investment Research Analyst - DFS Portfolio Solutions

William Higgin, CFA
Senior Investment Research Analyst
DFS Portfolio Solutions
William is part of the investment team and an Investment Committee member.
He specialises in financial modelling with particular emphasis on asset allocation.
William is responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of the firm’s asset allocation model as well as our proprietary filtering model which is extensively used in our manager selection process.
Throughout his career, William has built strong analytical and technical skills in the area of risk management. William previously held actuarial and asset consulting roles with Towers Perrin and Russell Investments.
HIs qualifications include B.A; B.Comm; FIAA; CFA; M.Fin
Venue Details - Melbourne 18 October 2022
IMAP Portfolio Management Conference - MELBOURNE is being held at the Arts Centre, St Kilda Road near to the heart of Melbourne's CBD.
Contact information and full details for the hotel venue can be found on their website
https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/
Event Venue's Address:
100 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne VIC 3004
Melbourne, 3000 Australia
Phone: (03) 9281 8000
Meet the IMAP Events Team

IMAP - Chair

Toby Potter
IMAP Chair
Toby has championed IMAP's mission for a number of years and is a key contributor for IMAP (along with others) in the representation to ASIC on recent changes to the MDA regulations and ongoing regulatory matters.
His experience in the wider investments market is extensive and his advice and experience is frequently sought after for his breadth and detail, plus his knowledge of the people in the industry.
His working experience includes key roles for NAB, IOOF, Morningstar, Managed Accounts, SFG Australia

Program Director IMAP

Jenny Phimleut
IMAP Program Manager
Jenny manages IMAP's program of conference events, webinars and publication, and liaises with sponsors, speakers
Jenny supports and organises IMAP special interest groups i.e. The Regulatory Group, and the Data Standards Group, and works closely with Toby, David and the IMAP team.
She is responsible for maintaining IMAP's digital presence, as well processes and policies as well as developing promotional material.
Jenny's Financial Services background covers Next Financial working in Product and Portfolio Management and Shadforth Financial Group.

Investment Specialist, IMAP

David McDonald, CFA
IMAP Investment Specialist
David's role is focused on working to develop a community of interest among the professionals responsible for portfolio management of managed account programs.
He has 30+ years’ experience in financial markets. He has worked as an economist, investment strategist, and has extensive experience in equity portfolio management and analysis. He was previously the Chief Investment Strategist for Credit Suisse Private Banking in Australia.
He has worked in institutional asset management and private wealth in Australia and the UK, & started his career as an economist with the Australian government.
David holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Economics (honours) from the Australian National University.
He is a CFA Charter holder and holds the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement designation
Please contact the IMAP Event team with any queries:
Email Address: support@imap.com.au
Phone: +61 2 8003 4147