Todd Kennedy

Mr. Todd Kennedy is Senior Portfolio Manager at Plato Investment Management Ltd.
He joined Plato in the first quarter of 2011.
Mr. Kennedy was previously Head of Asia Pacific ex Japan Active Equities at State Street Global Advisors, where he managed a team of 7 portfolio managers in Hong Kong and Sydney.
At State Street he was responsible for driving research into quantitative stock selection models, alpha generation, portfolio construction and ESG development.
He previously worked as a client support consultant at Barra specialising in portfolio construction, quantitative risk analysis and performance attribution.
Previous to Barra, he has worked as Head of Equity Derivative Research Asia Pacific ex Japan at Merrill Lynch, producing research and providing quantitative support for global sales, trading and proprietary desks.
He has also held positions at the Sydney Futures Exchange, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and Ord Minnett over his 19 year plus financial career.
He has a Bachelor of Science (Griffith University), Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance (SIA) and a Master of Applied Finance (Macquarie) where he presented his thesis for prediction of futures markets movements with an artificial intelligence expert system.