Webinar: Investment data and technology: the consumer view by Fund Business

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About This Webinar

Chief investment officers and their teams have to make sense of an increasingly complex environment of unprecedented policy, disruptive structural changes and an increasing noise/signal ratio driven by a ‘big’ data revolution. This panel will discuss investment decision-making, the reliability of investment data sources and the resulting need to recast systems and technology in today’s operating environment.

Dr. Brendan Casey

Former General Manager – Investments, Rest Super

Dr Brendan Casey commenced his working life as a research engineer, working for DuPont in the USA, with a BSC(Hons) and a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry. In 1993 he changed careers to stockbroking with County Securities, as a dealing research analyst, which became Citigroup where he was head of portfolio trading. Brendan then moved to funds management as head of dealing and technology at Commonwealth Investment Management, followed by a long stint of consulting interspersed by roles as the Asia Pacific director of trading and technology for ITG and the head of electronic trading and equity infrastructure for CBA Institutional Equities. From 2013-2016 he worked as the head of CIO operations at Suncorp prior to transitioning to his previous role as general manager investments at REST Industry Super.

Bhanu Singh

Head of Asia-Pacific Portfolio Management, DFA

Bhanu joined Dimensional in 2003 and has been in his current role since 2015.

In this role, Bhanu is responsible for all portfolios managed out of the Dimensional offices in Australia, Singapore and Japan. He works closely with Dimensional’s Research team to help design and implement custom solutions that the firm can provide to help clients achieve their goals. Additionally, Bhanu is a member of Dimensional’s Investment Research Committee and serves as a Director for Dimensional Australia.

Bhanu holds a BA in business economics with honours from UCLA and an MBA in analytical finance with honours from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Kirsten Wymer

Head of Risk Strategies and Research, BT Financial Group

Kirsten specialises in risk allocation, member analysis and asset allocation modelling techniques for multi-asset portfolios. Kirsten is a published author with papers appearing in ‘The Journal of Retirement’ among others. Prior to joining BTIS, she spent 15 years as a sell-side derivatives trader and quantitative researcher in a career spanning electricity, rates and equities asset classes.

In addition to quantitative research and modelling for BTIS, Kirsten’s team also manages $10bn in cash and fixed income on behalf of BT – part of the Westpac Group.

Eben van Wyk

Portfolio Manager & Head of Quantitative Research - Aware Super

Eben is a portfolio manager at Aware Super – a $90bn asset owner – where he helps to build and manage active and customised systematic equities portfolios, using data science methods for active stock selection, risk modelling and portfolio optimisation.

He makes use of machine learning models to predict uncertainties within the stock market, as well as models that help predict their superannuation member behaviours.