Dan Farmer was appointed Chief Investment Officer (CIO) in July 2022, a position that brought together MLC AM and IOOF investment teams under his leadership. In this role, Dan is focussed on the group’s multi-asset strategies, and he is responsible for management of the team, overall investment performance, managing risk and delivering superior investment outcomes to investors. He is also a member of the Investment Management Committee. Together with the single asset class strategies the broader Investment team manages ~$97 billion.

Prior to this role, Dan led the investment team managing IOOF’s funds from 2017-2022 and before this he managed the Australian Equities portfolio for seven years, successfully implementing the boutique program and defensive equities portfolio in this time for IOOF.

Before this, Dan was Senior Executive Investments at Telstra Super, managing the fund’s $3 billion Australian equity portfolio. During this 7-year period Telstra Super’s Australian equity product consistently ranked highly in the SuperRatings performance survey. Dan was also Portfolio Manager responsible for day-to-day management of the internally managed Australian share portfolios at Telstra Super totalling over $450 million.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from La Trobe University in Melbourne and a Master of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.