Martin Thompson joins ESSSuper as an Investment Manager
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Martin Thompson, Investment Manager, ESSSuper
September 2024
Global Investment Institute congratulates Martin Thompson on joining ESSSuper as an Investment Manager.
ESSSuper serves the Victorian State Government, its employer agencies and their employees. It administers the State’s statutory defined benefit superannuation funds and obligations. It also administers accumulation style products such as the ESSSuper Accumulation Plan and account-based Income streams. ESSSuper has approximately 125,000 members with A$37 billion in assets under management.
Prior to joining ESSSuper, Martin was the Head of Investment Research at legalsuper and before that spent 14+ years with Frontier Advisors, most recently as a Senior Consultant, providing consulting support to clients and undertaking investment and manager research.
Earlier in his career, Martin worked at Starfish Ventures, an Australian venture capital fund manager focused on high growth life sciences, information technology and clean technology companies. Prior to this, Martin worked in technology commercialisation at the University of Melbourne, virology research at Murdoch University and undertook a PhD in cancer research at the University of Western Australia.
Martin has a Master of Applied Finance through Macquarie University, a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology and a Bachelor of Science with first class honours.
We wish Martin all the best in his new role and continued success to the team at ESSSuper.
