Rob da Silva

Rob da Silva has 40+ years of experience across two careers as a highly regarded investment manager and a leading research ratings expert. He has been on the IMAP Managed Awards Judging Panel for 3 years including 2023. Most recently, he is Head of Research at Research IP and spent the prior decade as head of research at SQM Research (2014 to 2023) leading, developing, and mentoring a strong analyst team and driving ratings coverage growth from 45 to 450 across all asset classes. Over his research career, he has assessed, rated, and reported on over 300 fund managers and 2,000 products across all asset classes. Under his leadership, the research team received market acclaim by being voted No.1 in the Financial Newswire Rating the Ratings Houses Research Survey for 2022. His previous role was as head of research and deputy CIO at van Eyk Research, a leading research house. Prior to this, he spent 23 years directing and managing the extensive multi-billion-dollar fixed-income capabilities at BT Funds Management and Principal Global Investors where his responsibilities included team leadership, strategic and tactical asset allocation, duration and credit strategy, macroeconomic and market analysis, amongst others. Da Silva is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA). BBus (Finance & Economics), M Finance, GDip Applied Finance, FINSIA Fellow.