Alan Pullen. Alan Pullen has served as Portfolio Manager of the Fund since June 2023. Mr. Pullen has ultimate responsibility for the investment decisions for the Fund. He joined MFG Asset Management in 2012. In 2016, Mr. Pullen was appointed Head of the Financials Team and portfolio manager at MFG Asset Management. Prior to MFG Asset Management, Mr. Pullen spent nearly seven years as an analyst and portfolio manager at Maple-Brown Abbott, primarily covering financials in Asia ex-Japan. He also worked for six years as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia, spending time as a banking sector analyst and in the Reserve Bank’s business liaison program. Mr. Pullen holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Tasmania.