Besides being CIO of the Catholic Superannuation Fund, Tim also advises the Non Government Schools Superannuation Fund on investment strategy and portfolio structuring and is an economics and finance columnist for the Brisbane Courier-Mail.

Tim was previously Chief Investment Officer at Rothschild Australia before running his own fixed income and asset allocation boutique for eight years.

John is currently CEO of AMIST Super, a $1bn Australian Industry Superannuation Fund, having previously served for 6 years as General Manager at A$14bn FuturePlus Financial Services. John has over 20 years investments and financial services experience gained in financial services and multinational corporations in Australia and internationally.

John was previously Director of Investments for SEBO, a $3bn South African Superannuation and Pension Fund, and Principal Consultant in Financial Services at Deloitte Haskins and Sell.

John has also had extensive corporate management experience, having held senior executive positions at Kimberly Clark, O’Brien Glass, Rothmans and Unified Telecom. He has held several board positions in industries including: publishing and printing; motoring; stock broking; financial services, and an airline.

John holds an M.B.A, a Bachelor of Science (Engineering), and a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investments.  He is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW investigating “Behavioural Finance implications in Investing, and Superannuation Risk Management” at the School of Actuarial Studies at the University of New South Wales.

John is member of ASFA, a Fellow of Finsia, and a member of the Funds Executives Association of Australia (FEAL), and is a regular industry presenter on Financial Services and Investments topics. He also sits on the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Education committee. John has also published several papers including: ‘Are investors rational? And does it matter?’ and ‘Behavioural Finance implications in portfolio construction’

David’s role within the church is to oversee the investment of the churches endowment and other funds. He has had about 20 years of industry experience working with a number of larger providers of financial services as well as a smaller financial planning organisation.

In addition to his role at the church, David is also a trustee of the churches superannuation fund and sits on the AMP Ethics Committee.

Jon joined MIESF in June 1999 and is responsible for the overall management and investment strategy of the Fund. He also sits on the Board of a number of companies, particularly in the fund’s management and private equity sector

Jon has over 30 years in the investment management industry, including wide experience in superannuation.

Prior to his appointment to MIESF, Jon was a Director and Asset Consultant within the Corporate Finance section of PricewaterhouseCoopers and in this role was responsible for establishing an investment consulting practice with clients ranging from superannuation funds to insurance funds and funds managers. Prior to that, Jon was Manager, Investment Consultant at Sedgwick Noble Lowndes.

David is a Principal at the Melbourne office of Mercer Investment Consulting.  He is responsible for servicing a number of key clients and developing investment solutions involving alternative assets.
David brings with him over 25 years experience in a wide range of asset consulting assignments for major Australian, New Zealand and Asian superannuation funds and other financial institutions.  Prior to joining Mercer, David was Managing Director, Global Strategic Services for Citigroup Asset Management, located in New York and then London

With over 25 years superannuation industry experience Jeff founded SuperRatings in late 2002. Since then, he has led the introduction of several industry firsts including:

• The introduction of fund ratings to the superannuation industry in 2002
• Australia’s first and now leading Fund Level Performance Survey in 2003
• Australia’s most comprehensive and leading Fund Benchmarking Service in 2003
• Australia’s first complete web-based superannuation research hub in late 2005

SuperRatings clients now include superannuation funds from all sectors, government agencies, the Financial Planning Industry and suppliers to the industry such as fund administrators and asset consultants.

Paul Podolsky works as a portfolio strategist with Bridgewater's institutional clients. Prior to joining Bridgewater in 2004, Paul was a managing director and head of currency and interest rate derivative strategy at FleetBoston Financial. Paul earned a Master's Degree in Economics in 1996 from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, part of Tufts University in association with Harvard University, and a BA in History from Brown University in 1991..

James Wong is Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations of Paulson & Co. He joined Paulson & Co. in 2003 as head of the marketing and investor relations division and is the senior product specialist and principal liaison between the investment team and the firm’s nearly 500 global institutional investors. here.

Michael joined Industry Funds Management (“IFM”) as an Investment Manager in July 2006.  As part of an overall restructure, Michael was appointed Investment Director on 1 July 2007.  At IFM, Michael is responsible for evaluating, implementing and managing infrastructure investments.

Glenn has had over 25 years of experience in the superannuation and investment consulting industry. He has had senior roles at Mercer, Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Buck Consultants and Rice Walker Actuaries. He also was National Manager, Client Service with ING Investment Management from 2000 to 2003.

Glenn is currently a Principal at GCL Consulting, a small firm of consultants providing superannuation and investment consulting advice.

During Glenn’s career he has provided asset consulting advice to a wide range of clients both in the public and private sector. He therefore has extensive experience in working with clients in identifying their investment needs and developing investment solutions that meet these needs. He also has been involved in the review and analysis of investment managers in the Australian market for over 20 years.

During the three years that Glenn worked with ING Investment Management he was involved in the analysis of ING’s investment processes and communicating these processes to clients. He was also involved in developing and running a Socially Responsible investment vehicle. During this period, Glenn was also involved in the expansion of the ING Investment Management  Implemented Investment products into the wholesale investment market.

Ken established Atchison Consultants in 2001 to provide advice regarding financial and investment assets to major funds, focusing on property portfolios including appraised-based and listed Australian and global property. Ken was previously a consultant with the global firm Towers Perrin, advising funds on improving investment performance by ensuring effective investment policies and management structures.

Before joining Towers Perrin, Ken had been an investment consultant for four years for another firm as the manager of the business. He has also been General Manager and Chief Investment Officer for Wardley Investment Management.

Ken’s consulting clients have included major Australian financial institutions and funds.

Nathan is Head of ESG Research for Regnan governance research and engagement. Regnan holds mandates from institutional investors of around A$70 billion to constructively engage in relation to environmental, social and corporate governance risks.  Regnan performs and distributes ESG research on S&P/ASX200 companies in partnership with Monash Sustainability Enterprises and Goldman Sachs JBWere.
Prior to joining Regnan, Nathan was policy advisor to Senator Penny Wong in the shadow portfolio of Corporate Governance and Responsibility.
 

Mark Bytheway is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Investment Research Institute (SIRIS), a specialist investment research group providing sustainability and governance research and analytical services. 

Mark holds qualifications in law, economics and accounting, and post-graduate qualifications in environmental science.  He has more than 15 years’ capital markets experience, including work with an international credit ratings agency, and eight years in funds management, two of which as Director of Research, Asia Pacific, for an international investment management group. 

Mark also spent three years consulting in the areas of environmental risk analysis, environmental liability evaluation and resource valuation, was a founding member of the UNEP Australasian SRI Advisory Committee and is a Trustee of the OXFAM CAA Ethical Investment Trust.
 

Andrew Frankling spent a number of years in the offshore investment consulting world, including working for a top ten global private bank and heading up the internal asset consulting capability for the world's largest offshore legal firm.  In 2006 he was appointed Deputy Chief Investment Officer for the Anglican Church in Sydney.  Andrew has recently been published in FINSIA's JASSA Journal and holds bachelor degrees in Science and Economics, as well as the Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment"..