Speaker biographies
Matthew Sherwood
Senior Manager, Investment Markets Research
Perpetual Investments
Matthew Sherwood joined Perpetual Investments in May 2005 and is Senior Manager, Investment Markets Research. In his role, Matthew conducts research on and acts as an external voice on the Australian and global economies, financial markets and portfolio strategies. Matthew also works with clients to communicate Perpetual's investment process and portfolio management.
Matthew has extensive financial industry experience as an economist, investment strategist and central banker. Prior to working at Perpetual Investment, he was Investment Research Manager at ING Investment Management and before that he was a Senior Economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, where he gained significant experience in monetary policy formulation and undertook detailed research into the equity risk premium, currency markets and business investment. Matthew has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Newcastle and a Masters Degree in Economics (Finance and Econometrics) from the University of Sydney. Matthew has also held a lecturing position with the Securities Institute of Australia since 1997 and has lectured at Case Western Reserve University in the United States.
James Holt
Vice President and Investment Specialist - International Equities
BlackRock
Mr. Holt is a member of BlackRock's Equity Portfolio Management Group. Mr Holt is a Product Specialist - International Equities, providing a link between the global Portfolio Management Group and the Account Management Group.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2008, Mr. Holt was with Zurich Financial Services. He joined the firm in 2002 and was an investment specialist for their equity and diversified funds and was a participating member of their Tactical Asset Allocation Committee. Prior to joining Zurich, Mr. Holt was Marketing & Operations Manager with Zurich Scudder Investments. He began his career as an asset consultant manager with BT Funds Management.
Mr. Holt earned a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Australian National University in 1995.
Anne Anderson
Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income
UBS Global Asset Management
Anne Anderson has 26 years of investment industry experience and currently has overall responsibility for the fixed income investment management activities of UBS Global Asset Management in Australia.
Anne joined UBS Global Asset Management in early 1993 and has gained extensive knowledge of Australian and global fixed income markets, through a number of investment and client management roles within the business in Australia.
Prior to joining UBS, Anne worked for 11 years in the Treasury and Finance Group of Pacific Power where she gained extensive experience in interest rate and currency management across asset and liability portfolios.
Anne has a BEc and MApp from Macquarie University (Australia).
Tim Hewson
Senior Manager - Investments and Managed Funds
RaboPlus
Tim has more than 12 years experience working in banking and financial services and joined Rabobank in February 2006 as the Director, Structures and Investments and focused on structured credit, interest rate, fund derivative markets as well as commodity-linked investments.
As part of RaboPlus, he is responsible for investments and managed funds for Australasia and sits on both the Australian and New Zealand Investment Committees.
Prior to Rabobank, Tim spent more than four years in wealth management working for a specialist boutique investment firm focused on structured credit, alternative investment strategies and structured product development.
Prior to this Tim spent six years working in the Financial Markets at The Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the credit and interest rate markets with corporate and commercial institutions as well as state and federal government departments and bodies.