Geraldine Barlow

Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure at Affinius Capital

Speaker

Geraldine joined Affinius Capital as a Managing Director, Infrastructure in 2021. Geraldine has over 20 years of investment management and leadership experience gained in Australia and North America including over 15 years of board and investment committee experience across a range of infrastructure assets and investment management operating companies. Geraldine has extensive investment experience and has invested in and led investment teams across all major asset classes.

Prior to joining Affinius Capital, Geraldine was the Executive General Manager, Investments at Australian Unity (an 180 year-old mutual), where she had commercial, investment management and leadership accountability for the strategic direction of the organization’s (AUD) $8 billion platform of investments including a team of 50 responsible for the group’s balance sheet investments and investing multi asset, cash and fixed income, AREIT, hybrid property, healthcare, equities, venture capital and private equity portfolios. She also was a member of the Group Investment Committee. Prior to that she was the Head of Real Return and Real Estate at New Mexico State Investment Council, where she was responsible for the strategic direction of 25% of the endowment’s $US30bn portfolio. Prior to that she was one of the senior members of Hastings Funds Management North America in its formative years. Geraldine also previously held investment roles at Deutsche Asset Management, James Fielding Infrastructure and Jones Lang where her roles included a range of acquisition, asset management, portfolio management and capital raising responsibilities. Geraldine holds bachelor’s degrees in Business (economics) and Applied Science from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia (QUT) and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from FINSIA. She is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and has completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) company director's course. Geraldine serves as a non-executive investment committee member for Future Super, an Australian Superannuation Fund, and Centric Wealth, an Australian wrap platform.