“I’m happy to be back on my own. It worked well before and I expect it to work well again,” he said.

Cheever has worked in the finance and investment industries for more than 35 years. In the early 1990s, he worked as a director of ipac Securities before moving to Russell. Before his days at ipac, he worked in senior finance roles with two top 20 Australian listed companies throughout the 1980s, and before that he operated within the architecture of the domestic financial market, helping to build the bill market in

Australia, and introduce promissory notes and currency swaps, among other jobs.