Darren Beesley

head of portfolio management, Evidentia Group

Darren Beesley is head of portfolio management at Evidentia Group and is responsible for portfolio construction, investment strategy, asset allocation and risk management.

Darren has over 20 years of investments experience. Prior to joining Evidentia Darren was head of portfolio management at AMP Capital, his team responsible for AMP’s range of multi-asset funds including super, pension, goals based and insurance-linked portfolios. Prior to AMP, Darren was portfolio manager for Perpetual’s Diversified Strategies. He has also held positions at Ankura Capital (quantitative Australian equities) and Willis Towers Watson.

Darren is qualified as a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute of Australia (FIAA) and sits on the Actuaries Institute Retirement Income Working Group. He completed a Commerce Degree at UNSW majoring in finance and actuarial studies and was awarded the UNSW Co-op Scholarship in actuarial studies.