David Bell is the executive director of The Conexus Institute and an active researcher (industry and academic) in the areas of retirement, superannuation, investment management and governance.
David’s industry experiences include the role of CIO at Mine Super, founder and director of his own consulting firm (St Davids Rd Advisory) and 12 years at CFS GAM (now First Sentier), mainly leading the fund-of-hedge funds investment team. David completed a PhD at UNSW with a focus on asset allocation problems related to lifecycle modelling. He was also co-founder of financial newsletter Cuffelinks (now Firstlinks) and developed and taught the hedge funds elective at Macquarie University’s Applied Finance Centre.
