AUSTRALIAN MASTERS CORPORATE BOND FUND SERIES

BOARD AND MANAGER

   

Maximilian Walsh AM

AM, BEc (Sydney);
Chairman

Board seats – AMCBF#1 (Chairman), AMCBF#2 (Chairman), AMCBF#3 (Chairman), AMCBF#4 (Chairman) & AMCBF#5 (Chairman)

Max is regarded as one of Australia’s leading economists and business journalists. He has specialised in the areas of business, economics and politics in a journalistic career spanning nearly 50 years.
Amongst numerous previous executive roles, he was editor and managing editor of The Australian Financial Review and Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin. He also served on the board of Northern Star TV (predecessor to Channel Ten).
Max is now Deputy Chairman of Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services Limited. Max is also Chairman of Asian Masters Fund Limited and Global Resource Masters Limited which are ASX listed investment companies with over $190 million of market capitalisation.

   

Daryl Dixon

MA (Hons) (Cambridge), BA (Hons) (UQ)
Director

Board seats – AMCBF#1 (Director), AMCBF#2 (Director), AMCBF#3 (Director), AMCBF#4 (Director) & AMCBF#5 (Director)

Daryl is a graduate in economics of Cambridge and Queensland Universities. Daryl has extensive experience in the areas of taxation, retirement incomes and social welfare policy. He is known in Australia as a leading financial expert, particularly in the area of superannuation.
Daryl is the Executive Chairman of Dixon Advisory Limited the financial advisory firm he founded in 1986 which now employs over 240 staff and has over $3.0 billion of funds under administration across 3,200 self managed super funds. He has special expertise in personal and self managed super fund strategies, as well as extensive experience as a direct share investor in his own right.
Daryl is also a director of HCF Life Limited, Asian Masters Fund Limited.

   
 

ALAN Dixon

BCom (ANU) CA
Director

Board seats – AMCBF#1 (Director), AMCBF#2 (Director), AMCBF#3 (Director), AMCBF#4 (Director) & AMCBF#5 (Director)

Alan has been providing financial advisory services to corporations, institutions and individuals for the last 14 years. Until December 2000, he worked for various investment banks, including ABN AMRO (where he was an Associate Director in Mergers and Acquisitions and Equity Capital Markets) and Ord Minnett Corporate Finance. Since January 2001, he has operated as Managing Director of Dixon Advisory Limited. Dixon Advisory provides a complete suite of financial services, employs over 240 staff and has over $3.0 billion of funds under administration across over 3,200 self managed super funds. Alan has a Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a SPAA Accredited SMSF Specialist Advisor.
Alan is also a director of Asian Masters Fund Limited and Global Resource Masters Limited which are ASX listed investment companies with over $190 million of market capitalisation.

   
 

Alex MacLachlan

BA (Cornell) MBA (Wharton)
Director

Board seats – AMCBF#1 (Director), AMCBF#2 (Director), AMCBF#3 (Director), AMCBF#4 (Director) & AMCBF#5 (Director)

Prior to joining the Manager, Alex was an investment banker specialising in the natural resources sector, most recently serving as Head of Energy, Australasia, for UBS AG in Sydney and prior to that as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston. During his career as an investment banker, Alex advised many of Australia’s and the world’s leading natural resources companies, working on over $100 billion in announced mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions for over 30 leading Australian and international natural resources companies.
Before specialising in natural resources investment banking, Alex worked in the Japanese Government Bond derivatives markets in London, New York and Sydney. Alex has a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Alex is also Managing Director of Global Resource Masters Fund Limited.

   

CHRIS BROWN

BChem Eng (Hons) (Syd Uni), BCom (Syd Uni)
Director

Board seats – AMCBF#1 (Director), AMCBF#2 (Director), AMCBF#3 (Director), AMCBF#4 (Director) & AMCBF#5 (Director)

Prior to joining the Manager, Chris was an Executive Director at UBS AG in the Investment Banking Division in Sydney. Over his 8 years at UBS he provided capital markets and mergers & acquisitions advice to many different public and private companies in Australia and overseas. Chris specialised in providing this advice to industrial, utility, infrastructure, property and financial companies. Chris spent several years in the UBS Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York working on transactions in chemicals, healthcare, consumer products, media, telecoms, technology, insurance and utilities. Prior to joining UBS, Chris also worked in the Investment Banking Division of ABN AMRO where he focused on providing advice to companies in the Australian property sector.
Before his career in investment banking, Chris worked for a Sydney based property funds management company and a chemical engineering and design company. Chris has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering with 1st class honors and a Bachelor of Commerce both from Sydney University.

 

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