Damien Skidmore
Advisor, Bentleys New South Wales
As a financial advisor and director, Damien is responsible for a wide variety of clients, including high net worth individuals, professionals, and business groups.
Damien has a diverse and sophisticated background in financial markets. He’s worked at Westpac Foreign Exchange monitoring foreign currency breaches, and as a futures trader and broker with the U.S merchant bank J.P Morgan. Damien was a registered representative of the Sydney Futures Exchange and a New York Mercantile Exchange trader (NYMEX Access). This experience led to Damien starting his own trading business as a ‘local’ trader on the Sydney Futures Exchange, trading mainly medium dated bond derivatives, currencies and equities.
Damien commenced advising retail clients in 2002 as part of the Australian Unity Financial Planning license and was named Financial Planner of the year three years in a row.
Professional memberships
- Financial Planning Association (Member)
Qualifications
- Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
- Economics and Social Science
Learn more about Damien on his LinkedIn profile