One of his major accomplishments during this role was convincing the US senior management to maintain the management of Scudder Global Gold Fund (a US mutual fund) in Australia. At Deutsche Daniel also managed 21 carve out portfolios from Global and Asia Pac funds and participated in strategy calls with teams in Singapore and London on matters relating to these clients. He assisted with the development of hedge funds at Deutsche and moved into Goldman Sachs to trade long short Australian equities. After 3 years and significant growth in the trading business Daniel moved to the new role as Strategic Research & Portfolio Management, which was a key analytical role for the equity-trading group. He was responsible for developing capital allocation criteria, annual investment limits and providing stock research analysis to the group. He has very strong and intuitive risk management skills stemming from his mining engineering training, industry experience and from managing many different portfolio styles in multiple firms over 20 years.