David Bassanese

Mr. David Bassanese is a Chief Economist at BetaShares Capital Ltd.
He is responsible for developing economic insights and portfolio construction strategies for adviser and retail clients.
Prior to BetaShares, Mr. Bassanese was an economic columnist for The Australian Financial Review (AFR) for over a decade.
Prior to the AFR, he spent several years in the financial markets as a senior economist and interest rate strategist at Bankers Trust and Macquarie Bank.
He started his career as a Commonwealth Treasury official, after which he spent 3 years as a research economist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France.
Mr. Bassanese graduated from the University of Adelaide, and a Master in Public Policy from the J.F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.