Webinar speaker biographies
Trevor Cooke
Senior Investment Adviser
Global Property Securities, AMP Capital
Trevor is responsible for AMP Capital's joint venture with Brookfield Redding LLC. This includes promotion of the AMP Capital Redding Investors (ACRI) brand and capability. He also assists in the development and distribution of our global real estate securities products in the Asia Pacific region and globally.
Prior to joining AMP Capital in August 2008, Trevor worked for the Property Council of Australia as the Executive Director of the International & Capital Markets Division. In this capacity, Trevor lobbied the Federal Government and international organisations to change the rules constraining the competitiveness of real estate investment. Trevor led the campaign to slash withholding taxes for foreign investors in real estate, ultimately saving the industry more than $600 million over four years. Trevor was also responsible for the Property Council's strategic alliances with real estate associations across North America, Europe and Asia.
Trevor previously worked as a political adviser to the South Australian Government. He studied Politics and Law at the University of Adelaide.
James Holt
Vice President and Investment Specialist - International Equities
BlackRock
Mr Holt is a member of BlackRock's Equity Portfolio Management Group. Mr Holt is a Product Specialist - International Equities, providing a link between the global Portfolio Management Group and the Account Management Group.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2008, Mr Holt was with Zurich Financial Services. He joined the firm in 2002 and was an investment specialist for their equity and diversified funds and was a participating member of their Tactical Asset Allocation Committee. Prior to joining Zurich, Mr Holt was Marketing & Operations Manager with Zurich Scudder Investments. He began his career as an asset consultant manager with BT Funds Management.
Mr Holt earned a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Australian National University in 1995.
Andrew Main
Business Editor
The Australian
Andrew Main is the Business Editor of The Australian. He's been a financial reporter since 1979 but a darker secret is that he was a stockbroker from 1987 to 1992 in Sydney, Paris and London.
His main fascination is with business affairs that go wrong so he can bore significantly on many subjects including the Collapse of HIH Insurance, the Offset Alpine Printing saga and the Life and Times of Rodney Adler.
He shared a Walkley Award in 2003 over the Offset Alpine affair with colleagues at his then employer, the Australian Financial Review. He is the author of two books: "Other People's Money- the Complete Story of the Extraordinary Collapse of HIH'' and ""Rivkin Unauthorised- the Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of an Unorthodox Money Man''. He prefers short titles but as you can see, he was overruled by the publisher.
He currently has a regular radio spot with Deborah Cameron on ABC 702 in Sydney in which he tries to unravel the mysteries of business.
