Kylie-Anne Richards

head of investment research, Future Fund

Kylie-Anne Richards is head of investment research at the Future Fund, Australia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, where she leads research with direct portfolio impact across portfolio design and asset class teams. She has over 20 years of domestic and international investment experience with deep cross-asset class expertise, including serving as deputy chief investment officer at a fixed income asset manager and as head of financial engineering for Asia Pacific at Macquarie Group based in Hong Kong, among other industry roles. She also holds a tenured position as senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Kylie-Anne holds a PhD in Mathematics and Statistics from UNSW and a Master of Finance (Financial Engineering) from the University of Hong Kong, and is currently completing a second master’s in Artificial Intelligence at Monash University.