Zoe McHugh
head of portfolio strategy, Australian Retirement Trust

Zoe joined Australian Retirement Trust (formally Sunsuper in 2021),and is head
of portfolio strategy. Her responsibilities include investment fees and costs
strategy, public markets integration into the long term investment strategy and
coordinating research that informs long term investment strategy and the
identification of emerging opportunities.
Prior to joining Australian Retirement Trust, Zoe was an investment director in
the State Investments team at QIC, and a portfolio manager, strategy and liquid
alternatives, at Aware Super. Zoe’s professional experience encompasses
asset ownership and superannuation, corporate bank global markets, fund of
funds, hedge funds and academia. Zoe has a PhD in Economics from the Queensland University of Technology.