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Don Hamson
Dr Don Hamson
Managing Director, Plato Investment Management Limited

Don Hamson is managing director of Plato Investment Management. He has 15 years investment management experience most recently as head of active equities Asia Pacific for State Street Global Advisors, where he was also a member of the global senior management group. While at State Street he lead a team of portfolio managers running long and long/short active and enhanced Australian equity portfolios and successfully launched their first 130/30 edge investing fund. Prior to that, as chief investment officer at Westpac Investment Management Dr Hamson was instrumentally involved in the mergers of BT and Rothschild with Westpac's financial services division to form the new BT Financial Group. Dr Hamson started his career with Arthur Andersen before becoming a lecturer in finance at University of Queensland, then a senior analyst and member of the investment committee at QIC.

Articles by Don Hamson

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DON HAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
The ALP is proposing a raft of tax changes that will negatively impact after tax outcomes for many Australian investors should they be enacted. Read more
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PETER GARDNER , DON HAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
There are various issues that Australian share investors should consider regarding tax rates, including the proper management of tax lots. Read more
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DON HAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 JAN 2007
Most performance surveys for Australian sector funds are presented in gross terms, before fees and particularly before tax. But both fees and taxes are important for most investors in Australia. In this paper we estimate the impact of taxes for various ... Read more
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