David Bell

David Bell is executive director of The Conexus Institute and an active researcher (industry and academic) in the areas of retirement, superannuation, investment management and governance. David completed his PhD at UNSW, with a focus on asset allocation problems related to lifecycle modelling. 

David’s industry career 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 Colonial First State Global Asset Management (now First Sentier), mainly leading the fund-of-hedge funds investment team. David led the development of (the Member’s Default Utility Function), was a co-founder of financial newsletter Cuffelinks, and developed and taught the hedge funds elective at Macquarie University’s Applied Finance Centre.