Interviews

John Coombe: you need clarity around the consultant’s role John Coombe is the last of the originals at JANA Investment Advisers.  He and his former colleagues, John Nolan and Ken Marshman, worked together at Victoria’s State Electricity Commission finance department in the 1980s.  While the others have moved on to other things – Nolan selling…

Sam Sicilia… science meets investments HOSTPLUS has a history of innovation. It has embarked on brave and unusual marketing campaigns. It brought its member services call centre in-house some years ago. It plans to form a PST next year which will be of interest to SMSFs and small funds as this will have an infrastructure option. Greg Bright…

Michael Block and entourage at a function in PNG After running the investments for some big Australian funds – a university endowment, a government insurance fund and the funds management arm of two super funds – Michael Block has taken on a different challenge as CIO of Papua New Guinea’s main pension fund. He speaks…

Tim Macready and his directors, colleagues and advisors call it investing in a ‘biblical style’. Others call it ‘ESG on steroids’. Whatever the label, it’s working for the members of Christian Super. Greg Bright talks to Tim Macready, the fund’s CIO. There are lots of things which set Christian Super, a $750 million fund, apart…