Stirling is a dedicated Global Multistrat Hedge Fund Manager for Family Offices & select Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) individuals and a passionate patron of the Arts and BioMedical research – currently a 2024 member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center Leadership Council & patron of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Dendur Society.
He has maintained a Private Wealth Management focus for over 24 years through Trading (Market Making), Family Office Asset and Private Ancillary Funds Management, Wholesale Wealth Advisory and Expert Network positions in Japan, China & America and wrote a weekly column in the Weekend Australian & Australian Financial Review (AFR) newspapers for seven years discussing Family Office & UHNW global thematics.
Stirling has complemented this with Senior University Lecturing tenures internationally for over a decade and in January 2020, joined Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) Advisory Council, chaired by Dr Larry H. Summers.
A former National, Oceania and World Ranked Freestyle Wrestling champion, receiving GPS Colours, a University of Sydney Blue and was also the founder of the Sydney University Wrestling Club (SUWC), which was established in collaboration with the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG).
He believes establishing and maintaining great wealth goes in hand with philanthropy alongside community education and aims to focus all towards the global transition to a more resilient, equitable and sustainable economy by 2030.
Stirling’s current research interests center on applying machine learning to financial time series to identify reflationary factors and market inefficiencies, especially during the late 2020’s and heading into the 2030’s where automated technologies are increasingly animating new ways of identifying investment return outperformance (Alpha-α) and more contemporary ways of managing exogenous risks for clients.