Ben Samild

Ben Samild is the Deputy CIO, Portfolio Construction.  He joined the Future Fund in October 2013.  Prior to taking on the D-CIO role he led the Alternatives team and is a member of the Future Fund Investment Committee and Senior Leadership Team.  Ben joined the Future Fund as a Director after a 10 year career in the hedge fund industry, and 4 years as Head of Investment Strategy at Industry Super Fund LUCRF Super.  Ben completed a 6 year undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne majoring in behavioural finance, psychology and history.  After University he was employed as a research fellow within the Psychology department where the work of his group was supported from investors in the United States.  These investors later employed the group to run a systematic global macro hedge fund.  Ben completed a Masters in Applied Finance while leading the research at the Connecticut-based hedge fund.