Events

HWP is pleased to welcome Professor Mark Crosby from Monash Business School as our first guest in our Thought Leader Series for 2021.

Mark will be discussing ‘The economics of China from an Australian perspective.’

The Webinar will be held on Thursday the 11th February at 4.00pm.

To register to the webinar please click here.

Professor Mark Crosby, Monash Business School.

Mark Crosby is a Professor in the Economics Department at Monash University. Mark has had previous academic experience at Melbourne Business School in the University of Melbourne, the SP Jain School of Global Management in Singapore, UNSW and the University of Toronto. Mark’s academic interests are in international macroeconomics, with particular interest in policy issues in the Australian and Asian regions. His published research has covered topics such as the role of exchange rates in affecting macroeconomic fluctuations, the impact of macroeconomic factors on election outcomes, and the properties of business cycles.

In his capacity as a researcher, academic administrator and as a teacher Mark has built up considerable expertise in the economic and business environment in Asia. Mark has led more than 30 executive study programs to China, India, and South East Asia in the past fifteen years, and worked with a wide range of companies to understand the business environment in the region. Mark has acted as a consultant to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and to the Monetary Authority of Singapore on a number of projects since 1998, and he held a Research Fellowship position at the HKMA from 2000 until 2005. He also consults widely to business and government both in Australia and overseas, with clients including BHPBilliton, the World Bank, CBA, and Tenaga Nasional Berhad. His most recent consultancies have examined policies for diversifying Brunei’s economy, policy issues related to South Africa’s increasing current account deficit, and issues relating to exchange rate regimes in Asia. Mark is also a regular contributor to the Australian Financial Review and The Age newspapers, and he is a sought after public speaker on matters relating to the Australian and international macroeconomic situation.

For our final Fund Manager Series webinar of 2020, Hamilton Wealth Partners hosted Peter Cooper, Allan Goldstein and Marcus Guzzardi from Cooper Investors to discuss the Family & Founders Fund.

The webinar was held on Tuesday the 8th of December to view a recording of the webinar please see the video above.

PETER COOPER
Chairman/Chief Investment Officer Portfolio Manager – Brunswick Fund
BBus (Ec), Grad.Dip. Fin Mgt., F Fin, AICD, CA
Peter founded Cooper Investors in 2001. As Chief Investment Officer, Peter created and implemented the firm’s VoF investment philosophy which is applied across the international, domestic and Asian equities strategies. He is responsible for mentoring investment team members and the standardisation and integration of the process across the investment teams.
Peter has over 30 years of investment management experience. In 1987 he joined the NSW State Superannuation Investment and Management Corporation as a specialist industry analyst and progressed to deputy portfolio manager of the $7bn portfolio. In 1993 Peter ran the Australian equities portfolios for BNP and then joined Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (formerly Mercury Asset Management) where he worked for 7 years, culminating in his position as Head of Australian Equities and Managing Director where he oversaw a team managing $7.5bn in Australian equities.

ALLAN GOLDSTEIN
Portfolio Manager – Global Equities Funds B.Comm
Allan joined Cooper Investors in 2007 and has over 12 years of experience investing in international equities markets.
Having been a foundation member of the Cooper Investors global equities team, Allan has been instrumental in refining and implementing the VOF investment philosophy and the CI Way in global equities markets. This has enabled the team to deliver consistent performance and to build the global equities platform to over $2bn in assets under management.
Allan was appointed Portfolio Manager in 2011 and today specialises in North American markets.

MARCUS GUZZARDI
Co-head of Americas – Global Equities B.Comm, M.Comm (Hons), CFA
Marcus joined CI in November 2012. As a member of the Global Equities team, he focuses primarily on North American companies.
Prior to joining CI he began his career in 2009 as an equities analyst at Diogenes Research, an independent equities research house. At Diogenes, Marcus was responsible for financial quality analysis of companies and industries in both Australian and International markets.

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

Catherine is an Art Advisor and discussed the topic “The state of the Australian Art Market”.

This webinar was held on Tuesday the 24th of November.

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.