The investment professionals group CFA Societies Australia had boosted its team with the appointment of two key appointments to its Advocacy Council and to its National Diversity Committee.
Stephen Dunne has been appointed the Chair of CFA Societies Australia Advocacy Council starting this month and Maria Wilton has been appointed the Chair of CFA Societies Australia National Diversity Committee, also starting this month.
Dunn is a Director of Cbus and Chairman of the Investment Committee, he is also a director of QIC, NAPCo and Chairman of Evergen.
He worked at AMP Capital from 1994 to 2016 where he held several roles, and in 2004bwas appointed CEO of AMP Capital, a role he held until retiring from the company in 2016.
{loadposition peter}Dunn is a chartered financial analyst, holding a Master of Business Administration from Monash University and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) and a Fellow of the Institute of company directors.
Maria Wilton has a 30-year history in the investment industry with leadership experience in asset management and pension funds. She is the former Managing Director and Chair of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia Limited where she had responsibility for leading the strategic direction of Franklin Templeton’s business in Australia and New Zealand.
Wilton – a chartered financial analyst - is currently the Chair of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) Industry Advisory Board, Deputy Chair of Infrastructure Victoria and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Society Advocacy Council.
The aim of the CFA Society’s Advocacy Council is to advocate for highest standards of professionalism, comprising compliance, competency and ethics, across the Australian financial services industry.