Michael Kemp 

Author of “The Ulysses Contract”, ASA Education Partner

Dr Michael Kemp completed an MBA from Monash University before embarking on a career in corporate finance during the mid-1980s bull market. As a young financier he was awarded The Ian Roach Prize for achieving first place nationally amongst employees of the Australian Stock Exchange and its members studying for their Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. 

His earlier roles included working as a money market dealer with investment bank Bankers Trust, as an Interest Rate Liability Manager with the Australian Wheat Board and in the corporate finance department of stockbroking firm Potter Warburg. 

From 2011 to 2020, Michael was the chief investment analyst for Scott Pape’s Barefoot Blueprint newsletter. 

Michael has written three investment books; Creating Real Wealth (2010), Uncommon Sense (2015) and The Ulysses Contract (2023). 

Michael’s second book attracted attention in the US, with Robert P Miles, author of The Warren Buffett CEO, inviting Michael to address fund managers and investors from around the world at the annual Value Investor conference, which precedes the Berkshire Hathaway AGM in Omaha, Nebraska. 

Today Michael spends his time with family and friends, investing on his personal account, and writing articles and recording podcasts for a business consultancy firm. And, more recently, as an ASA Education Partner. 

To Michael, finance has always been a passion, never a job.