Asset Allocation Summit Australasia - list of speakers 

George Bayley commenced his career working in assett management with the Fleming family in the UK in 1992, he moved onto to found and sell a property focused publishing business in the UK, moving to New Zealand where he continued in publishing with Trends Publishing International an advertising driven organisation developing their operations...

Ross Bernays is the Chief Executive Officer of Health Industry Plan (HIP) and has over 30 years experience in the superannuation industry. Following an extended career in the NSW public sector superannuation, Ross moved to REST Superannuation (Australia’s largest superannuation fund as determined by member numbers) and has led the helm at HIP for ...

George joined UBS Wealth Management in January 2008 as Head of Investment Strategy & Consulting. He is responsible for the Advisory Investment Solutions (Equity, Fixed Income & Managed Funds) & also Co-Head of Investment Solutions in Australia, which includes the Discretionary Investment Solutions. Prior to joining UBS, George held a number of...

Mr Browning is responsible for strategy and operations at the Myer Family Company, an investment, family office and wealth services firm catering to the needs of families, individuals, foundations, charities and institutions. Prior to his current role, Mr Browning spent four years as head of investment with the same firm. From 2002 to 2006, he was ...

David Charles, Director of ABX brings a broad array of domestic and international, business-oriented legal experience to ABX. He has acted for some of the world’s largest and most prominent entities across four continents. Notably, David has advised on and coordinated expert legal teams on the deployment of complex, high-value project finance...

Michael Clarke is the managing director, industry and government funds for Russell Investments. Michael recently joined Russell brining over 23 years experience in funds management, both in Australia and overseas. Prior to joining Russell, Michael was a consultant on regional business strategy and active investment management for local fund...

Miles has over ten years experience in private client wealth management, funds research and asset allocation. Miles joined the Myer Family Company (MFCo) in January 2008 to structure and manage its recommended list of open-ended investments, and currently manages the advisory process used in the provision of investment advice for MFCo’s high net...

Bernard Connolly is the CEO of Connolly Insight LP, which is a co-founder of Hamiltonian Associates. A renowned economist and commentator, Connolly previously spent 11 years as the global strategist for Banque AIG and AIG Trading, a platform that established his independent analysis as a "must read" for leading market participants and...

Michael has over 20 years' experience in Australia and the United Kingdom in strategic asset allocation. He joined Ibbotson Associates in 2003 to expand the coverage of alternative investments for advisory and implemented consulting clients. Michael is responsible for setting Ibbotson's alternative investment policy and for managing the firm's...

Thomas Coughlin, Chief Executive Officer of Australian Bullion Exchange Limited (ABX) has worked in the Investment, Funds Management and Bullion industries for over 10 years. Thomas Co-Founded ABX with a wealth of experience and expertise in capital markets and portfolio management. His professional portfolio management career extends from the...

Mark Delaney was appointed Chief Investment Officer and Deputy CEO of AustralianSuper in July 2006 after the ARF and STA merger. Mark has the formidable responsibility of investing currently around $42 billion of member’s retirement savings. He has expanded AustralianSuper’s in-house investment management capabilities combining this with external...

Keith Dickie

Ross was appointed Chief Investment Officer of MAP in January 2008 and is responsible for the investment strategy of the fund. He has 17 years experience in investment management principally in the areas of asset valuation, financial market modelling and product development. He held previous roles at Suncorp Investments in asset allocation and...

Oscar Fabian was appointed Chief Investment Officer of VicSuper. Before joining VicSuper, Oscar was State Super Financial Services’ Chief Investment Officer for 8 years from 2002 – 2008 and an Investment Manager for MLC Investment Management from 2000 to 2002. Oscar has over 20 years experience in the financial markets with beginnings at Colonial...

Mr. Ferguson is a Co-Portfolio Manager for the Asia-Pacific real estate securities team and is based in Sydney. He has overall responsibility for portfolio construction and stock analysis within the A-REIT sector. Mr. Ferguson also contributes to the firm’s infrastructure securities capability, providing key insights from a global capital markets...

Greg began his career with the AMP Society in 1981, after graduating with a Batchelor of Economics degree from the University of New England. In 1985, he moved to the AMP Investments Australian Fixed Interest division and in 1994 was appointed Head of the area. In 1998, Greg moved across to the AMP Investments Private Equity division as a...

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 joined the asset management team for the central Sydney Anglican Church bodies, where he now heads ...

Susan Gosling has worked for Sydney based investment management firm, MLC for the past eight years. She is Head of Capital Markets Research, her responsibilities include strategic and active asset allocation; during calendar 2010 she was also MLC's acting Chief Investment Officer. She has a focus on the application of scenarios analysis to...

Robert has worked in financial services and investment management for over 17 years and his core area of expertise is in alternative investments and portfolio management. Robert maintains a high profile in the alternative investment industry through his regular contribution to industry articles and conferences. Robert joined Select in 2004 and is...

Andrew joined AustralianSuper in July 2011 as Manager, Investments Governance. This role involves Andrew implementing an ESG integration strategy for AustralianSuper’s investment portfolio. Prior to joining AustralianSuper, Andrew was Executive Director, Head of Environmental, Social & Governance Research at Goldman Sachs and Partners...

Graham Harman is the Director of Capital Markets Research at Russell Investments, and also chairs Russell’s Asset Allocation Committee. Graham joined Russell in 2010. Prior to joining Russell, Graham served as Head of Investment Strategy at Citigroup Australia, where he was responsible for asset allocation and equity market advice to pension...

Sydney-based Bill Hartnett has spent the majority of his 20 year career in the area of responsible investment and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment risk analysis. Bill has a unique combination of industry experience (roles in corporate banking (Westpac), funds management (Challenger), ESG research (Innovest Strategic Value...

Thiam Hee Ng is an economist with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he works on macroeconomic surveillance, early warning systems and financial integration issues in the Office for Regional Economic Integration. He is one of the authors of the Asia Economic Monitor, a semi-annual publication from ADB that reviews emerging East Asia's...

Glenn is an Actuary and has had over 35 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...

Damian commenced with QSuper in July 2009. As Head of Investment Strategy his primary responsibilities are the asset allocation and risk budgeting for QSuper’s investment portfolios. Previously Damian was Head of the Portfolio Design team at QIC. Specific responsibilities included portfolio design for core clients (a process that involved...

Mark Lister joined Craigs Investment Partners in early 2004 as an equity analyst specialising in property and small cap research. In 2007, Mark was appointed Head of Private Wealth Research for Craigs Investment Partners. His role encompasses all aspects of Craigs investment strategy for its private wealth business, from investment strategy to...

Tim joined Christian Super in 2005 to implement the Fund’s decision to apply ethical investment principles across its entire portfolio and in all asset classes. Having managed that implementation process, he now oversees the internal ethical investment team. This involves leading the fund's corporate engagement efforts, implementing investment...

Dominic has worked in financial services and investment management for over 20 years and maintains a high and well respected industry profile through his regular contribution to industry articles and conferences. Dominic’s expertise, particularly in relation to absolute return investments, became the foundation for the first Select Portfolio...

Ron Mehmet joined Advance Investment Solutions in July 2010 as Portfolio Manager, Fixed Interest. Ron started his career in 1984 at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) working in the financial markets division. In June 1997 Ron joined ING Investment Management (INGIM) – Multi Strategies Group and was responsible for a variety of...

Along with the investment committee, Con is responsible for managing StatewideSuper’s $2 billion in funds under management. Prior to joining StatewideSuper, Con was Director of Marketing and Client services for Manhattan-based boutique investment firm, Pzena Investment Management, where he was responsible for marketing the firm's products and...

Tony is currently a Senior Consultant working with Russell Investments. He has over thirty years of experience working in the superannuation industry as an actuary and consultant, covering a wide range services for corporate, industry, government and retail funds. His current position encompasses the provision of superannuation actuarial and...

Oriel Morrison is a CNBC anchor, based in Sydney, Australia, anchoring Cash Flow, which airs globally (Monday - Friday 1pm – 3pm SYD time). She also provides special reports, breaks business stories, provides live market updates and reports live from business events around the world. One of Australia’s most prolific business journalists, Oriel...

Daniel manages the Investment team, which is responsible for capital markets, manager research, and portfolio management. He chairs the Ibbotson Investment Committee in Australia, which governs and oversees all investment processes and decisions made by the Investment team, and also sits on the Ibbotson Global Investment Policy Committee. Daniel...

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...

Rene is currently the Head of Investments for the Commonwealth Private Office and joined the business in March 2010. The Commonwealth Private Office (CPO) is a part of Commonwealth Private Bank. It is a relationship management business that provides wealth management and advice services to the CBA group’s top tier Ultra High Net Worth individual ...

Troy is the Managing Director of Capital Markets at QIC, with responsibility for delivering corporate treasury services and product structuring solutions to QIC's clients. His team delivers funds management solutions that are capital efficient, tax effective, and low cost. They seek out specific big-picture risks and develop strategies to...

Dennis Sams is the Head of Fixed Interest & Cash at the $26 billion UniSuper, the superannuation fund for the tertiary education sector in Australia. Previously, Dennis was Director, Investment Consulting and Director of Investment Research for Russell Investment Group in Australia. In these roles, his principal focus was the development of...

Richard manages The University of Auckland Foundation, ensuring that donors’ gifts are well stewarded, and assisting the Trustees in their governance responsibilities including the investment and distribution of Foundation funds, both endowment and current use. Richard provides similar services to the three other charitable trusts that support the ...

Ben is the Manager of Investments and Finance at NGS Super and has worked within the investment team at NGS Super for 3 ½ years. In this role, he works with the Fund’s asset consultant and Investment Counsel to formulate investment strategy and manage the implementation of those strategies across the investment portfolio. Ben also has...

Suzanne Tavill is responsible for AMP Capital’s illiquid alternative investment platform that is housed with the Multi Asset Group. This encompasses a private equity program, an infrastructure program and an opportunistic/real asset (e.g. agriculture, asset leasing, distressed assets) program. All programs are global in nature and incorporate the...

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 ...

Mark Waldron was employed by The Australian National University in April 1990 as a Treasury and Fixed Interest Manager in the Investment Office. Prior to this he worked for the Superannuation Fund Investment Trust and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Over his term of employment at the ANU he has held the positions of Treasury Manager, Deputy...

Stuart Wilson is the Environmental, Social and Governance Manager at Sunsuper, a $19 billion superannuation fund. His responsibilities include investee board quality assessments, governance research, engagement and ESG risk identification. He is also Portfolio Manager for Sunsuper’s Ethical, Environmental and Socially Responsible Investments...

BInt Bus (Flinders), MCom (NSW) Michael has worked in financial services and investment management for over 10 years and has experience in covering a wide range of products in both mainstream and alternative asset classes. He joined Select in 2004 and is the Head of Research as well as Portfolio Manager for the Select Listed Investments...

Charles Woodhouse was appointed as Head of Funds Management in May 2009. Charles directs QSuper's investments with external service providers including investment managers, funds of funds and consultants. Charles and his team are responsible for implementing investment policy decisions and structuring potential investments with a view to...