Tim Murphy

Tim Murphy is director of Asia-Pacific manager research for Morningstar Australasia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He is responsible for leading qualitative research on managed funds, exchange-traded funds, and listed investment companies, as well as managing Morningstar’s model portfolios and relationships with consulting and adviser clients in the APAC region, including Australia, New Zealand, Korea and India.

Before joining Morningstar in 2005, Murphy worked in equity derivatives trading with Optiver Australia, and prior to that, in mortgage securitisation with Macquarie Bank, as well as in corporate credit analysis roles with HSBC and Commonwealth Bank. He worked on secondment to Morningstar’s London office in 2007. He comments regularly about investing issues in the media.

Murphy holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied finance and a postgraduate diploma in accounting, all from Macquarie University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations. He has completed the Investment Management Workshop at Harvard Business School, is a Fellow of Finsia, and has been a master’s level guest lecturer on asset management at both Macquarie University and Western Sydney University.