Credit pioneer shaped by a crisis

Having joined Australia’s A$85 billion ($78.1 billion) sovereign wealth fund when it was set up in July 2007, David Neal has been instrumental in shaping the Future Fund’s investment approach. He was a consultant to the institution while at investment consultancy Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson), before taking up the role of chief investment officer. He has lived and worked in Australia since 1999. Neal speaks to AsianInvestor about how the Future Fund was inevitably moulded by …