Gavin Smith

Dr. Gavin Smith is Co-Founder & Portfolio Manager at Plato Investment Management Ltd.
He is a founder of Plato and has two years quantitative investment research experience at Plato.
He was previously an Equities Analyst at Endeavour Equities where he engaged in both qualitative and quantitative equity research for two years.
He has a PhD from the University of New South Wales where his thesis topic was Corporate Governance and Investment Management.
During his PhD, his research on corporate governance was presented at leading finance conferences in Australia and also internationally.
Prior to his PhD, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), graduating with First Class Honours from the University of Wollongong.
Through his Honours research he developed an interest in quantitative investing by investigating the application of econometric techniques to relative value arbitrage strategies in the Australian market