Bert Rebelo is head of APAC institutional client group for Northern Trust Asset Management.

He is a member of the APAC Asset Management Leadership Group and board member for Northern Trust Asset Management Australia. Bert oversees business development teams and strategy, along with responsibility for delivering exceptional client service to across the APAC region.

Bert has more than two decades of investment management industry experience, and was previously, head of Australasia for Northern Trust Asset Management. Prior to that role, he was head of APAC product and strategy.

Earlier in his career, he held a variety of roles, including head of product management for the manager-of-manager business in Europe, and an analyst for business risk and compliance. Before joining Northern Trust, Bert was a compliance manager at Royal & Sun Alliance Investment Management. He completed articles in Johannesburg, South Africa and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996.

Bert holds a bachelor of commerce degree and bachelor of accountancy degree from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and holds a bachelor of law (LLB) from Open University (UK). He is IMC qualified and holds the Regulation and Compliance paper from the Securities Institute.