Oliver is head of institutional sales at iShares Australia. He is responsible for the development and management of the institutional arm of the business. Oliver joined BGI in 2008 from Bank of New York Mellon, where his responsibilities included building relationships with institutional clients across Australia, Asia and Europe.He has also held positions with Saudi International Bank as Head of Technical Trading and Daiwa Securities as an Executive Director. Oliver has more than 15 years experience in financial services across three continents, and brings to iShares a wealth of knowledge around international markets. He holds a BSC from The London School of Economics and an MA from University of London.

Prior to joining VFMC, Mr Bone spent six years as Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific operations of Baring Asset Management, a member of the ING Group. Prior to that role, Mr Bone was a Principal at Towers Perrin where he worked for seventeen years, starting in Melbourne, then Hong Kong as Managing Director of Asia, and finally New York at Towers Perrin's International Consulting Office. His roles at Towers Perrin included both actuarial and asset consulting. Mr Bone holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Honours from the University of Melbourne, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. http://www.vfmc.vic.gov.au/

“Woody” specializes in applications of the modern “Economics of uncertainty” (originally developed and championed by Kenneth Arrow of Stanford University) to forecasting and risk assessment in the international economy and its asset markets.

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

The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF), formed in 1981 to provide retirement saving benefits for employees of Catholic Schools, Clergy and Catholic Church agencies, has grown to become Australia’s largest Catholic superannuation fund. Catholic Super Retirement Fund manages AU$3 billion in assets. * The CSRF announced that it has readjusted its Australian equities portfolio by awarding Mandates to BGI Alpha Advantage Equity Fund and the BlackRock Australian Quant Strategies Fund totalling $100 million respectively. * The rationale behind this is to incorporate greater flexibility into the portfolio by allowing short sells into the investment mix (increase the liquidity of the CSRF assets); * The target of the mandate was to better manage CSRF’s investments in a volatile market.

Peter is the joint founder and Managing Director of Clean Technology AustralAsia, a business established to accelerate the investment in and deployment of clean technologies in the Asia Pacific region. Throughout Peter's 20-year entrepreneurial career, he has worked at the leading edge of the sustainable development agenda and has advised leading corporations, governments and financial institutions. He has oraganised Cleantech Finance & Investment Initiatives in Australia and India and has recently completed a major international project for the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate to develop a Strategic Action plan to increase the investment in and deployment of renewable energy in India. Peter is also the Fund Manager of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund and was previously the Sustainability Advisor for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Education in Environmental Studies.

Colonial First State Property Management won six awards last week at the annual ICSC Asia Shopping Centre Awards in Macau in three categories including: marketing, design and development of retail properties; • The “strategy of identifying and analysing development opportunities (through trends, feedback from consumers and retailers, and forecasted population growth) has enabled the company to create value for our customers and retailers” • CFSPM is one of Australia’s largest asset management and property development groups with more than $15 billion in assets, with $7.5 billion generated by its retail assets each year. It has more than $3billion worth of retial development projects in the pipeline.

http://www.mercer.com.au/summary.htm?siteLanguage=1012&idContent=1324875 •Mercer’s Study (Benefits Outside the Square Study) determined that for many baby boomers, the impact of recent stock market declines on their superannuation savings means that they can’t afford to stop working altogether; •Additionally over 40% of employees over the age of 50 are unsure of how much they need to retire; •As a result one in four will delay retirement into their 70’s; •However the report did express that baby boomers wanted their employers to help them access financial advice and education; •Employers recognise the benefits of facilitating this, but rather encouraging employees at the earliest possible age to start planning their financial futures, less than a third are actively seeking a solution.

Michael has 20 years experience as an investment manager and asset consultant. Currently Head of Alternative Investments at Intech, Michael is responsible for setting and implementing Intech and Skandia’s alternative investment policy. He is also portfolio manager for two specialist alternative investment funds and has been pivotal in expanding Intech’s coverage of alternative investments since joining the firm in 2003. Prior to joining Intech, Michael spent eight years as an investment strategist and portfolio manager. He worked at BT Funds Management as Australian Equity Strategist and was a member of the Asset Allocation Committee. He also worked at UK insurer Sun Life Asset Management as Global Asset Allocation Strategist. Michael commenced his career in 1987 as a fund manager analyst and investment strategist with IPAC Securities and subsequently moved to London to work as an asset consultant with actuaries Bacon & Woodrow.

Mike has worked in financial markets for over 25 years and has held senior management, product and business development roles in capital markets, asset management and structured finance-in Sydney, London and New York. Since 2003 he developed a structured finance business for Maple Financial in Australia, focusing on asset based and cash flow lending opportunities to fast growing companies and through a subsequent MBO brought that business to Causeway. Prior to this, Mike worked for 18years in a variety of debt capital markets and asset management product development and distribution roles, for Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank (1984-1988). Mike holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Sydney University and is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Leo de Bever is the Chief Executive Officer of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, which manages $75 Billion of pension, insurance, and endowment funds for the Province of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Leo holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He started his career at the Bank of Canada, and is best known for his work in risk management and alternative investments at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Prior to joining AIMCo, Leo was the Chief Investment Officer at Victorian Funds Management Corporation in Melbourne.

Stephen Docherty is Head of Global Equities at Aberdeen Asset Management, managing a team of eleven, including four senior global equity investment managers, who are responsible for Aberdeen's overall global equity investment strategy, including ethical portfolios. The team manages over A$10 billion in assets for clients around the world. Stephen joined Aberdeen in 1994, initially with responsibility for establishing performance measurement procedures before taking up a fund management role. Previously, Stephen worked for Abbey National Plc in the Department of Actuarial Services within the Life Division. Stephen graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Aberdeen. http://www.aberdeen-asset.com/aam.nsf/mediacentre/pressreleases?OpenDocument&news=20A879A5EDB3E8D0802574E2003B1110 * Announced (2/10/08) that it has entered into a business and capital alliance with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB). The companies have a market capitalization of $92 Billion and $245 Billion respectively. * Under the agreement MUTB has agreed to promote Aberdeen products to the Japanese institutional marketplace. MUTB benefits from the arrangement by having exclusive rights to distribute selected Aberdeen products to Japanese institutional investors including: *Emerging market equities / global equities / global fixed income

Simon Eagleton is the Business Leader for Mercer Investment Consulting in Australia and New Zealand. He is based in Mercer’s Sydney office. Simon advises a small number of Australian clients on all aspects of their investment programs. His particular areas of expertise are asset-liability modelling and strategy development. Simon is also a member of Mercer Investment Consulting’s Australian Investment Policy Committee, responsible for establishing Mercer’s house policy on investment strategy and manager configuration issues.

Tomas Franzén currently holds a position as Chief Investment Strategist at the Second Swedish National Pension Fund – AP2, in Gothenburg. AP2 is one of four buffer-funds within the recently reformed Swedish national pay-as-you-go pension system. As Chief Investment Strategist, Tomas is responsible for issues related to Investment Policy and Strategic Asset Allocation. AP2 has USD 37 bn in assets under management invested in a broad-based global portfolio with 60% in equities. The policy benchmark is the result of an annual Asset-Liability-Management study where the design of a PAYG pension system plays a central role. Tomas is a member of the Executive Committee at AP2. Before joining AP2 at the start-up in 2001, Tomas, between 1998-2001, held a position as Chief Strategist at Swedbank Markets, advising the banks’ Swedish and global clients on equity investments. Prior to that, he was Chief Strategist at Den Norske Bank between 1996-1998. During 1986-1996, he served as a senior economist at Svenska Handelsbanken in Stockholm. In the early 80’s, Tomas held a position as Economist at The Swedish Employers’ Confederation. Tomas holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a holder of CEFA (Certified EFFAS Financial Analyst). http://www.efinancialnews.com/assetmanagement/index/content/2448899224 •Since AP2 began its operations in January 2001 it has posted average annual returns of 6.3%, exceeding its five year target of 5.7%. Assets have almost doubled from Skr133.5bn at the end of December 2001 to Skr233bn in June 30, 2008; •AP2 attributes it part of its successful performance to its incorporation of traditional fixed income investments rather than higher risk debt instruments, subsequently affected by the liquidity crunch.

Stephen J. George is the Chief Investment Officer of Capricorn Investment Group and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2005. Stephen is responsible for overall investment strategy and portfolio and risk management as it pertains to Capricorn’s $7.4 billion Principled Endowment Fund. Stephen was previously Founder and CEO of Epylon, Inc. which is now a subsidiary of Accenture, Inc. Prior to this, Stephen was Vice President with Goldman Sachs Group in the Investment Management division. He also worked at Merrill Lynch & Co.’s Investment Banking Group where he focused on International Corporate Finance. Stephen received a B.A. with honors from Cornell University and is CFA Charterholder.

Sean is responsible for the management of the Future Directions range of single and multi-sector funds as well as any third-party fund management relationships. Sean has extensive manager research and investment strategy experience stemming from his investment consulting background. Sean chairs the various Investment Committees which provide both strategic direction and fiduciary oversight to the FDF workgroups which contain members of both the internal FDF team and Mercer, the FDF’s consultant. Sean moved to AMPCI in early 2006, prior to which he had spent 12 years at Watson Wyatt in the New Zealand, Hong Kong, London, and for the last 4 years, Sydney. In his most recent role at Watson Wyatt in Sydney, Sean was a Director of Research with responsibility for the Asia-Pacific region. Sean has a BA degree from Otago University majoring in Statistics and Economics and is a member of the Institute of Actuaries. http://www.ampcapital.com.au/K2DOCS/329C85BD-CD29-4869-B3CD-FE100EDB177A/MR2008-10-10-AMP-Capital-extends-withdrawal-period-for-AMP-Capital-Enhanced-Yield-Fund.pdf?DIRECT (10 Oct 2008) •AMP Capital has also extended its withdrawal period to up to 12 months (in contrast to 10 days) as a prudent response to current market conditions for its ‘Capital Enhanced Yield Fund’. •The Fund is used to invest in high yield securities and private debt through AMP’s ‘Capital Structured High Yield Fund’. The rationale behind this action is to preserve the quality of the fund, by maintaining the current exposure of the Fund’s target assets allocation of 50 per cent traded high yield securities and 50 per cent private debt.

Brad Holzberger joined QIC in February 1994. He is responsible for the delivery of QIC’s strategic investment management services to its clients. This includes advice on investment strategy, asset management, portfolio implementation and risk management. Prior to joining QIC, Brad was a consultant with international asset consulting firm. He entered the financial services industry after a career as an Army Officer specialising in strategic planning. Brad is a graduate of the Royal Military College at Duntroon. He has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of New South Wales and a Masters of Science in Management from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in California. He is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA). http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/business/qic-posts-44m-profit/2008/11/05/1225560906929.html •QIC Ltd has recorded a $4.4 million after-tax profit for the 2007/08 period despite tough market conditions. Whilst QIC Ltd has reported a drop of $5.6 million in profits, this does reflect the volatility and conservative approaches towards investment in the current market. •"QIC remains positive about the long-term prospects for markets and the investment strategies we have in place," Mr. Trevor Rowe said (QIC chairman). The report shows at June 30 this year the QIC was managing $82.9 billion in funds, up 28.5 per cent over the year. •Mr. Rowe attributed the maintenance of the companies’ bottom line over the 2007/08 period to its incorporation of unlisted alternative assets and investments in US endowment funds.

Tim Hughes is Chief Investment Officer of the Catholic Superannuation Fund. He also advises the Non Government Schools Superannution Fund on investment strategy and portfolio structuring and is an economics and finance columnist for the Brisbane Courier-Mail. He was previously Chief Investment Officer at Rothschild Australia before running his own fixed income and asset allocation boutique for eight years.

Paul is responsible for providing strategic investment advice to the investment committee, implementation of its policy and managing external provider relationships. Previously he worked in the UK, where he held senior investment positions with large pension schemes. In his early career he worked in the Australian financial services industry. Paul graduated in Economics from Monash University and holds a Master of Applied Finance degree from the University of Melbourne. He is a CFA charterholder and member of the CFA Institute. Paul has participated at international conferences and published articles on a range of investment topics.

Andrew is responsible for developing and implementing the Fund's long-term investment objectives to achieve the best possible investment performance Andrew brings with him over 30 years of experience in investment and actuarial disciplines. TWUSUPER has AU$2 billion in assets. Andrew brings with him over 30 years of experience in investment and actuarial disciplines. For the last four years, he has been a senior asset consultant with the Russell Investment Group. Covering corporate, government and industry superannuation, Andrew is well placed to fulfill his new responsibilities as CIO. Andrew is an Associate with the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and holds a Bachelor of Economics majoring in Economic Statistics with Monash University. Andrew also holds a Graduate Diploma in Computing with Victoria College and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and 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.

Harry Liem is a Principal with Mercer’s investment consulting business in Sydney, where he undertakes specialist research on hedge funds and various strategic issues. Harry joined Mercer in 2004 and has 14 years of international experience in the investment management industry working as a portfolio manager and strategist for a number of reputable companies, including ING, Perennial and Rabobank/Stroeve Investment Bank. He regularly presents at conferences and has lectured at institutions such as the University of Technology, Sydney. He is also author of the book 2020 Vision: Investment Wisdom for Tomorrow. Harry holds a BSc and MSc in Computing Science from Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), an MBA from Stirling University (UK) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst

Andrew Lill is director of consulting for Russell Investment Group in Australia. He was appointed to this role in 2005. Previously a senior consultant in Russell’s Sydney office for 3 years, Andrew has over 12 years experience working as a specialist investment consultant in both the U.K. and latterly in Australia. Andrew has great experience in advising a wide range of institutional clients on all aspects of their investment programs with his particular skills including asset liability modelling and investment manager selection. While working in Australia, his clients have tended to be large government superannuation and insurance funds, plus a variety of corporate superannuation funds of different sizes. Prior to joining Russell's Sydney office in 2002, Andrew was a partner of U.K. actuarial consultancy group, Lane Clark and Peacock (LCP) in London, England. During the five years he worked for LCP, Andrew worked as client director to a wide range of institutional clients with assets between £100 million and £500 million. An important position held by Andrew in this time was head of manager research, a role that increased in responsibility as LCP launched multi-manager funds in the U.K. market. Previously Andrew worked for four years in the U.K. asset consulting division of global consultancy, Watson Wyatt. His role consisted of developing the asset liability model used by Watson Wyatt and presenting to clients on the implications of the results for their strategic asset allocation. http://www.russell.com/AU/About_Russell/Press_room/Press_Releases/PR20080930.asp •The Russel Global Property Fund I closed on the 19th of September 2008 with USD $240 million. It is a global property ‘funds of funds’, open to the Australian wholesale superannuation funds; •The fund was designed to provide investors with access to a set of specialist global strategies aimed at extracting value from property markets in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, as well as diversify existing investment portfolios; •The funds aimed internal rate of return over the 10 year term is 13 per cent a year, beginning at the end of a three-year investment period.

John Livanas is C.E.O. of $1 Billion AMISTSUPER, one of Australia’s leading Industry Funds. John has 25 years investment and financial services experience gained in Australia and internationally, including as Director: Investments at SEBO, a $3bn. South African Pension Fund; General Manager at $14bn FuturePlus and as Principal Consultant: Financial Services with Deloitte. John has also held senior executive positions at Kimberly Clark, O’Brien Glass, and Unified Telecom, and has been a Board Member of a number of companies. John holds an M.B.A, a B.Sc. (Elec Eng) and a Grad. Dip. Finance & Investments. He is a PhD candidate at UNSW where he also lectures Investments at the School of Actuarial Science. John has also worked pro-bono in assisting the development of capital markets in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Maldives and Fiji.

Doug McTaggart is currently the Chief Executive Officer of QIC. QIC manages over $80 billion in assets for the Queensland Government and, increasingly, the private sector. Dr McTaggart has held various positions as an academic economist. His last position was as Professor of Economics and Associate Dean at Bond University. Prior to joining QIC he was the Under Treasurer and Under Secretary of the Queensland Department of Treasury He is currently a Councillor on the National Competition Council (NCC), and a Council Member of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He is Immediate Past-Chairman of IFSA, has been President of the Economic Society, Australia and a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board. He holds an Honours Degree in Economics from the Australian National University, and a Masters Degree and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Graeme Miller is Watson Wyatt's Head of Investment Consulting in Australia, and is responsible for the management and leadership of a team of 32 which advises Australian institutional investors with funds under management of more than $200 billion. Graeme is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, and holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. He has also successfully completed the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) qualification.

David joined the Future Fund from Watson Wyatt Australia where he was Head of Investment Consulting. David started his career with Watson Wyatt in the United Kingdom and led the establishment of the firm’s investment consulting business in Australia. He is a graduate of Oxford University. ‘Future Fund’ has responded to these issues of risk by investing in the ‘Higher Endowment Fund (HEEF)’, which has been invested in line with the Investment Mandate provides investors with negligible chance of capital loss, whilst generating a 1.77 % return for the quarter 30 September 2008 from $6,366 million in assets.

David Patterson is the Founder, Chair and CEO of the Northwater Group of Companies, which includes the main operating company, Northwater Capital Management Inc. Mr. Patterson’s role as Chair and CEO involves strategic planning and initiatives, corporate governance, and managing key senior client relationships. He is chair of the investment committee for both Northwater’s hedge fund portfolio and for the Northwater Intellectual Property Fund. Mr. Patterson is widely respected at the executive level of many of the world's largest pension plans for his adeptness in creating solutions to seemingly intractable problems, his ability to effectively communicate complex information understandably, unfailing fair treatment of clients, and high ethical standards. Prior to founding Northwater in 1989, Mr. Patterson held a number of senior positions in capital markets and in the investment and finance industry including president of Security Pacific Futures Inc. in Chicago and director of Futures and Options for Burns Fry Limited. He is a former governor of The Montreal Exchange and past chair of the Commodity Futures Advisory Board of Ontario at the Ontario Securities Commission. Mr. Patterson holds an honours BA from Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario) and an MBA from the University of Toronto.

Andrew is Chief Executive of LegalSuper, the $1 billion industry super fund for the Australian legal community. LegalSuper is a SuperRatings’ platinum rated fund. With more than 20 years of diverse super industry experience, Andrew has worked closely with and advised all elements of the industry including fund administration, audit, investment management and custody.

After graduating from university in Japan, Zac spent 8 years working throughout Asia as an actuarial consultant at Towers Perrin - Tillinghast. Zac joined Deutsche Bank 2 years ago and is part of the Superannuation and Insurance Group within Global Markets. By combining his understanding of the liability side of these industries with Deutsche Bank's asset and structuring strengths, Zac works with superannuation funds and insurers to implement solutions that address their key issues of risk management, return enhancement and capital efficiency

Gillian Robertson is General Manager and Investment Manager of the New Zealand Anglican Church pension Board which is trustee for two superannuation funds and several charitable trusts. The pension board also provides administrative services to other Christian organisations for insurance, taxation and investment management.

Dr Don Russell is the Global Investment Strategist at BNY Mellon Asset Management Australia. Don works with institutional investors throughout the Asia Pacific region as a strategist and technical expert on specific BNY Mellon products Don was appointed Independent Chairperson of State Super from 1 January 2008. Prior to joining Mellon, Don was Executive Director with WestLB Mellon Asset Management (Australia). Don joined WestLB in 2001. WestLB Mellon Asset Management is a global asset management company jointly owned by WestLB AG, a German bank, and The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Between 1997 and 2000 Don was in New York with Sanford C. Bernstein, a US money management and research company. Between 1985 and 1993 and again in 1996 he was Principal Adviser to the Hon Paul Keating both during his time as Treasurer and Prime Minister. Between 1993 and 1995 he served as Australia’s Ambassador to the US in Washington. Don also worked for the Commonwealth Treasury joining as a cadet and was at various times a consultant to the World Bank, Bankers Trust, Westpac Bank and Counsellor in the Australian delegation to the OECD in Paris. Don has a PhD from the London School of Economics, a MEc from ANU and a BEc (Hons) from Flinders University. Don also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA). Superannuation funds have also been facing the low returns due to the poor performance of Growth assets class, including shares and property over the 2007/2008 period. ‘State Super’ like many other Superannuation funds, are unwilling to dramatically alter the current composition of investment allocations due to the typically strong historical returns on Growth assets (which have entered negative figures only three times in 20 years), and the long term nature of these investments. State Super maintains this long term outlook for Growth assets, whilst responding to the volatility in the market in the short term by increasing its investment into liquid assets such as cash.

Walt is a Vice President of Business Development at Eaton Vance Management, focusing on marketing the firm’s institutional bank loan capabilities globally and introducing market-driven new product ideas. Prior to joining Eaton Vance, Walt was a partner and chief marketing officer at a New York City investment management firm. Previous to that, he served as a pension fund consultant in Honolulu, Hawaii. Walt graduated from the United States Military Academy with a B.S. and received his M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii.

Mark Sladden is Executive Officer of MasterSuper; a Multi Employer Superannuation Fund with $750M of assets and 12,500 members. MasterSuper has 8 staff including 3 financial planners. Mark has worked in the superannuation industry for 20 years in a variety of Consulting and Management positions providing strategic advice to Fund Directors and Employer sponsors. As Executive Officer of MasterSuper his primary responsibilities are to formulate policy, carrying out strategic planning for future superannuation requirements, managing board issues, service providers, including investment managers and maintaining fund compliance. He holds a Bachelor ff Economics from the University of Western Australia, a Diploma of Superannuation Management from Macquarie University and a Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Mr Söderberg works in the Superannuation and Insurance Group within Deutsche Bank’s Global Market, where he focuses on efficient ways to access or hedge risk premia in conventional and alternative asset classes. His background is in equity derivatives and credit derivatives, having spent nine years working for Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan in Sydney and London. Mr Söderberg, a CFA Charterholder, graduated from the University of Linköping in Sweden with an MSc in Business Administration.

Mike Taylor is Managing Editor of the financial services publications Money Management and Super Review. He has been a journalist for the past 36 years with a career spanning coverage of financial services, federal and state politics and industrial relations. Mike began his career in New Zealand before moving to Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland in the early 1970s where he cut his teeth on state politics before joining the Australian Financial Review in 1979. At the AFR Mike again found himself covering State Politics and industrial relations as well as financial services. He moved back to Brisbane in 1984 as the AFR’s bureau chief in the Queensland capital before moving to Canberra in late 1985 to become the AFR’s Canberra bureau chief of staff. He was lured away from the AFR to The Australian’s Canberra bureau before a few years’ later family commitments saw him put down roots and join the Canberra Times as Chief of Staff and then National Affairs Editor. After a brief flirtation with public relations, Mike returned to journalism and he is now Managing Editor of a number of magazines published by Reed Business Information, including Money Management and Super Review

Mark joined QBE in 1999 as Group Investment Manager, after working as Chief Investment Officer at OCBC Asset Management Limited in Singapore from January 1997 until joining QBE. He has over seventeen years experience in funds’ management. QBE Insurance manages AU$26.5 billion in investments.

Janet Torney is Chief Executive of Qantas Superannuation Limited, assuming this role in August 2007. She has over 25 years experience in the financial services industry, including superannuation, investment consulting and strategic advice, funds management and economic research and analysis. The Qantas Superannuation Plan size is AU$6.5 billion.

Craig was recently appointed Chief Investment Officer of the Local Government Super. Previously with property group Macarthur Cook, where he was responsible for real estate securities, his professional experience in the funds management industry stretches back to 1982, and includes stints as CIO at Tower Asset Management and as a portfolio manager at BT. Local Government Super manages AU$6 billion in assets

Roger graduated from Oxford University and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1983. He worked as an investment consultant for Bacon and Woodrow and headed William Mercer's investment practice before joining Gartmore Investment Management in 1987, responsible for business development and quantitative investment. He joined Watson Wyatt as a partner in 1989 to head up the firm's investment consulting practice. Roger has wide experience of investment matters having been both on the investment management and consulting side. He has responsibility for a number of the firm's major investment clients both in the UK and internationally advising them on all investment issues. He is the author of a number of papers on asset allocation policy and manager selection. He is on the Board of INQUIRE (the institute for quantitative investment research) and the Editorial Board of MSCI. Roger is the Global Head of Investment Consulting and has a worldwide team of over 330 in his charge.

Chief Investment Officer at AP3 (3rd Swedish National Pension Fund, www.ap3.se ) with about € 22 bn under management. As CIO Erik has the responsibility of the overall risk and portfolio structure of the fund. He heads the Risk Management department which comprises two teams: (I) the Risk allocation team which works in areas like ALM, portfolio modelling, manager structure and risk budgeting. (II) the Risk Control team in charge of middle office functions like pricing and ex post analysis of performance and risk, • Member of Executive Management Committee of the Fund. • At AP3 since Spring 2000. • 1995 – 2000: 5 years at Svenska Handelsbanken (SHB) spent in various research positions: (I) 1998 - 2000: Head of Financial Research at SHB in Stockholm, heading a group of quantitative analysts in the fixed income/fixed income derivatives area (II) 1997 - 1998: Senior Quantitative Analyst, SHB, London, working mainly with fixed income derivates • PhD in Mathematics from Stockholm University in 1989 in the field of Algebra.

Bob Walton got his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and spent a decade teaching at the Graduate School for Information Management at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1990, Bob became President and CEO of CLSI, Inc., a higher education related software firm in Cambridge, MA, concluding in the successful sale of the company on the Toronto stock exchange. In 1992, Bob moved to California where he took over as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial & Operating Officer for Innovative Interfaces, Inc., an international library & information management software firm, expanding its base of operations to 33 countries during the 90’s. Bob moved from Innovative in 1998 to Ohio where he took the position of Vice President for Finance and Business at The College of Wooster. After 8 years as CFO at Wooster, Walton recently assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Claremont University Consortium. Claremont University Consortium (CUC) is the central coordinating and support organization for a highly regarded cluster of seven independent colleges known as The Claremont Colleges located in Southern California and includes Pomona College, founded in 1887; Claremont Graduate University, 1925; Scripps College, 1926: Claremont McKenna College, 1946; Harvey Mudd College, 1955; Pitzer College, 1963; and the Keck Graduate Institute for Applied Life Sciences, 1997. The Claremont Colleges have endowments valued at $2B under management. Bob also serves on the boards of the Seaman Corporation, an industrial fabrics manufacturer and as Chairman of iPost Corporation, an internet-focused high technology company based in San Francisco, CA.