Events

For our last edition to the 2020 Thought Leader Series, HWP is excited to announce Catherine Asquith as our final guest for the year.

Catherine is an Art Advisor who will be discussing the topic “The state of the Australian Art Market”.

This webinar will be held on Tuesday the 24th of November at 4pm, to register please click here.

Catherine Asquith

Former Melbourne based gallerist now art advisor, Catherine Asquith is tertiary educated, has an academic background in Art History, extensive international travel and residency and, in excess of 20 years working within the Australian art market, and latterly, the Asian and International art market, across both the primary and secondary sectors
Catherine’s art expertise comprises Australian painting, sculpture, works on paper & multiples from Impressionist to Modernist through to Contemporary; Australian Indigenous Contemporary paintings & works on paper in particular works from Papuya Tula; Asian Contemporary painting, sculpture & works on paper (S E Asia, Japan, South Korea); and International Modern, Post war and Contemporary painting, sculpture, works on paper & multiples (British, American & Central European).
Catherine has placed significant works of art by leading Australian and International artists within high profile national and international private, corporate, and institutional collections, and currently manages several corporate collections.
Actively participating in a variety of board positions, Catherine is frequently engaged in advisory and consulting roles on curatorial projects across various sectors including commercial and residential property developments nationally, in addition to museum and cultural infrastructure projects, internationally.
Catherine Asquith is a member of the Art Consulting Association of Australia, an AVAA Certified Practising Valuer (Auctioneers and Valuers Association of Australia) and a member of the City of Melbourne’s external assessment panel (visual arts).

HWP hosted Viktor Shvets as part of our Thought Leader Series Webinar.

Viktor Shvets, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific and Global Strategy at Macquarie Group in Hong Kong and author of the recently released book The Great Rupture. Viktor discussed the policy, investment and market implications from his book The Great Rupture.

You can also purchase a copy of Viktor’s book on Amazon via this link.

The webinar was held on Tuesday 6th October.

VIKTOR SHVETS is a global strategist at Macquarie Bank. In his almost four-decades-long investment banking career, he worked in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, London, New York and Moscow at a number of global investment banks, such as Baring Securities, Deutsche Bank, DLJ, Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse. Over the years, he has been a highly rated analyst across various disciplines, head of research and is now recognized as one of the more innovative global market strategists, working on the intersection between finance, technology, politics, and history. He is a prolific writer on key global trends and is a frequent commentator on CNBC, Bloomberg, and other media outlets. In June 2020, Viktor has published his first book – ‘The Great Rupture’ – distilling decades of investment and academic experience into a deep perspective of the future, and the role that people, technology and capital are likely to play, as societies continue to come under pressure from the self-reinforcing merger of the Information Age and Financialization. The book learns from the past and projects into the future. Will it be capitalism or communism, feudalism or despotism?

Viktor was born in Kiev, which at the time was the capital of the Soviet Ukraine. He attended Kiev University of Trade before immigrating to Australia, where he completed a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and a Master of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales. He is married with two sons and currently resides in Hong Kong.

Hamilton Wealth Partners  hosted Nicole Connolly (CEO & Founder) and Jonathon van Rooyen (CIO) from IPIF Management for our August Fund Manager series Webinar.

To view the webinar please see the video above or to listen on Spotify please click below.

About IPIF 

Australia’s essential infrastructure assets – telecom, airports, toll roads, electrical grids and water plants – have a long history of delivering reliable returns. Yet many investors have had to forego the category thanks to lofty buy-ins and exclusive dealings. At IPIF, we didn’t think that was fair. So we put together unlisted infrastructure funds that Australian wholesale investors can actually get in to.

Founded in 2015, IPIF (Infrastructure Partners Investment Fund) currently manages nearly $200 million in investments. We have extensive experience in infrastructure, investment strategy, manager selection, and portfolio construction. We are independently owned and hold investments in the Funds ourselves. In a world filled with intangible concepts, IPIF’s funds are made up of real, concrete assets that play an essential role in our everyday lives.

Nicole Connolly, Founder & CEO

Summary:
More than 20-years of experience in the superannuation and funds management industry. Prior to establishing IPIF, Nicole was Director of Alternative Assets at Russell Investments, publishing a report on the history of unlisted infrastructure investment in Australia, and Head of Alternative Investments at Telstra Super, one of Australia’s largest corporate superannuation funds. Nicole has extensive experience in the design, implementation and management of the infrastructure asset class for institutional investors in Australia.

Portfolio Management:
 Portfolio Manager for IPIF Core
 Head of Alternative Investments for Telstra Super’s unlisted investment portfolio
 Member of the Model Portfolio Committee (MPC) at Russell Investments. The MPC determined Strategic Asset Allocation for Russell’s Consulting Clients

Investment & Asset Management:
 Investment management across a number of alternative investments including private equity, infrastructure and hedge funds
 Extensive manager due diligence, selection and ongoing review of UTA, GDIF, ADIT and TIF

Strategy & Market Development:
 Establishment of IPIF and IPIF Core
 Director of Alternative Assets at Russell advising on strategic asset allocation, manager and strategy research
 Development and implementation of Telstra’s listed and unlisted infrastructure investment program

Jonathan van Rooyen, CIO

Summary:
Over 20-years of experience in infrastructure investment sector. Prior to joining IPIF, Jonathan was former Portfolio Manager of a $2.5 billion unlisted infrastructure fund with assets in Australia and the UK. Prior to this, Jonathan was an Executive Director at Hastings Funds Management for approximately 10-years, performing a variety of roles including transactions, asset management and strategy development. Jonathan also spent 10-years at KPMG Corporate Finance during which time he played a key role in establishing KPMG’s Global Infrastructure Valuations division culminating in his appointment to the KPMG Partnership in 2007.

Portfolio Management:
 Portfolio Manager for $2.5 billion Infrastructure Fund
 Portfolio Manager for the Korean Government’s National Pension Service Corporate Partnership Fund (US$200 million)

Investment & Asset Management:
 Acquisition of stakes in Perth Airport, North Queensland Airports, NSW land registry business and Envirogen
 Director on Queensland Airports Limited
 Director on M5 and M4 Toll roads in Sydney
 Director on Envirogen Power Generation

Strategy & Market Development:
 Strategic Review of The Infrastructure Fund
 Development and implementation of Hastings’ Asia market-entry strategy
 Establishment of Hastings Korea office and deep relationships with Korean pension funds and LPs

Hamilton Wealth Parnters hosted Damon Kitney as part of our Thought Leader Series. Damon is an accomplished journalist for the Australian and Author and will be talking about his new book The Inner Sanctum.

The Webinar was held on Wednesday 19^th August.

To watch the Webinar see the Video above or listen please click below:

Damon Kitney has spent 25 years in financial journalism, including 16 years at The Australian Financial Review in a variety of writing and editing roles in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, and 5 years as a deputy editor of the newspaper. For the past decade he has been the Victorian Business Editor at The Australian newspaper, based in Melbourne. Damon’s biography of James Packer: The Price of Fortune: The Untold Story of Being James Packer, was published in 2018.

The Inner Sanctum is a sample of Damon Kitney’s finest catch over a decade of working for The Australian newspaper. It is a product of his firm belief that behind the share prices, EBITDA and endless santised investor briefings, it is still human beings that are our leaders. From Mike Cannon-Brookes nursing his children or Malcolm Broomhead, Ray Horburgh and Kathryn Fagg talking about their cancer battles, to Paul Anderson recalling his wife’s brush with death or Carol Schwartz or David Fox speaking affectionately about their beloved fathers, these are deeply personal stories that had never been told before.

Some of the subjects in this book may have more wealth than any of us can ever imagine, run the biggest companies or sit on the most powerful boards in the land, yet they still have their own failings, trials and triumphs. The Inner Sanctum offers a different perspective on some of the nation’s most celebrated leaders of the past decade. They are living proof that power and influence are one thing, but humanity conquers all.