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John Gall
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John Gall has extensive experience in Australia’s financial services sector, especially in institutional funds management across asset classes such as; global equities, global bonds and property. In March 2006, he retired as Managing Director, Franklin Templeton Investments Australia Limited.
Prior to this role, Mr. Gall served as the representative for Fiduciary Trust International (in Australia and New Zealand) from 1994 to 1999 (when the firm first established its Australian subsidiary).
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 Paula Allen |
Paula is a Director of State Trustees, the Chairman of their Investment Committee and a Member of their Compliance Committee. Ms Allen was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Bellwether Group and, prior to that, of LUCRF Super. She also helped establish a funds management business at Salta Properties in her role as Operations Manager. Other positions held have included strategic and operational roles at Colonial Investments and Bankers Trust.
Ms Allen is a member of the Business Advisory Committee to ASIC, she is a past Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Vic), and she holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant in Australia.
She also has extensive international work experience in the financial services sector.
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Jeremy Duffield |
Jeremy Duffield retired in December 2010 after a distinguished 30 year career with The Vanguard Group, including the last 15 as Chairman of Vanguard Investments Australia, Jeremy joins the Board of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies as Chairman. Jeremy brings to the role a strong, well respected and in depth knowledge of the financial services industry.
Mr Duffield is currently a director of Plum Financial Services, Ltd and a member of the Australia Financial Centre Task Force. He previously served on the Investment and Financial Services Association Limited (IFSA) as deputy chairman, on the Federal Government’s Financial Sector Advisory Council (FSAC), and on the Advisory Board of the Financial Literacy Foundation. |
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Sylvia Falzon |
Sylvia Falzon has over 26 years experience in the financial services industry including a number of senior executive roles with Aviva Investors Australia Limited, AXA Investment Management and Alpha Investment Management.
She is a lecturer and task force member at Finsia and was awarded a Senior Fellowship for her contribution to the industry.
She holds a Bachelor of Business from The University of Western Sydney and a Master of Industrial Relations (Honours) from The University of Sydney.
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 Dr Richard Fuller |
Dr Richard Fuller, Senior Responsible Investment Specialist, Asia Pacific MercerDr Richard Fuller is a Senior Specialist with the Responsible Investment Unit of Mercer’s Investment Consulting business. Richard’s work for clients extends across the ESG field and includes policy development and implementation in relation to corporate governance standards and practices (including share voting and company engagement), evaluation of environmental and social issues in the investment process, ESG integration by fund managers, and fund manager evaluation.
Richard holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in Applied Finance with the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (he is a Fellow of FINSIA). Richard has also completed the Wharton Business School’s Advanced Management Program, and most recently attended Harvard’s executive education program on Corporate Social Responsibility. |
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Andrew Goddard |
Andrew Goddard Consulting provides actuarial, investment and general consulting services. Until February 2008 Andrew was Director of Alternative Assets & Strategies at Russell Investments. This role entailed managing research into investment opportunities in the areas of private equity, infrastructure, timberland and funds of hedge funds.
From 1988 until late 2007 he was relationship manager and principal advisor to one of Towers Perrin’s and then Russell’s largest Australian clients. During this period he managed actuarial consulting, communications consulting and investment consulting units at various times.When Towers Perrin set up its subsidiary TRM as a trustee company in 1998 he served on TRM’s Board, initially as Chairman.
He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Foundation for Young Australians.
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Jeremy Hester |
Jeremy Hester, Senior Vice President and Head of Sales Australasia, Northern Trust Australia.Based in Melbourne, Jeremy has over 20 years of experience in the financial service industry and has been focussed on the sales and marketing of global custody and asset servicing since 1990. He has extensive experience working with global institutional clients both within the pension/superannuation sector and directly with asset managers. Prior to assuming his current role in Australia Jeremy headed the Global Fund Services sales team in EMEA responsible for the delivery of fund administration and custody to clients in the UK, Dublin and Luxembourg.Jeremy is a regular participant and contributor to industry events and was also a Director of Northern Trust’s UK Pension Plan from 1998 to 2004.Prior to joining Northern Trust in 1994, Jeremy worked for Bankers Trust in a similar sales position. |
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Paul Murray |
Paul Murray is Head of Debt and Absolute Returns at VFMC.
Mr Murray joined VFMC in July 2004 and has 20 years experience in financial markets and funds management. He leads the investment management of VFMC’s debt and absolute return portfolios.
Previous employers include Macquarie Funds Management, Bankers Trust Australia and The Reserve Bank of Australia.
Mr Murray holds a a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Melbourne, and a Diploma in Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia.
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Prof Deborah Ralston |
Professor Deborah Ralston is the Director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and a Professor of Finance at Monash University.
Previous appointments include Pro Vice Chancellor of the Division of Business Law and Information Science at the University of Canberra, and Director of the Centre for Australian Financial Institutions at the University of Southern Queensland.
Deborah’s academic background is in economics and financial management and she has taught in the areas of economics, corporate finance, credit risk management, financial statement analysis and financial institutions management.
Her research interests include the impact of financial regulation, the strategy and management of financial institutions and regional economic development. She has published widely in these areas and is a co-author of the text Financial Institutions Management.
Deborah is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants. Deborah was formerly a Director of Heritage Building Society 1992-2003 and is currently a Director of the listed mortgage broking company Mortgage Choice.
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