About Us

Dinesh Pillutla

Managing Director

Dinesh has over 35 years’ experience in a wide range of roles across the property and IT sectors. Over the last 25 years, he has built up a considerable track record and research following in the listed REIT and private equity real estate sectors at Core Property Research and prior to that, AMP Capital, Aegis Equities, Southern Cross Equities (now Bell Potter), and PIR.

Dinesh launched Core Property Research in July 2017 to provide market -leading and insightful research on the property funds sector. With nearly 4,000 subscribers, Core Property Research has assisted fund managers via its research to raise nearly $6 billion in new equity since inception.

Dinesh has been a member of investment committees approving managed funds research and has advised several board members in the real estate sector on corporate strategy and investment management. Dinesh has published research on over 250 private equity real estate funds over the last 20 years and remains an active, hands-on specialist in the sector.

Dinesh is a frequent contributor and speaker on the Australian commercial property sector. Dinesh has been on the Editorial Board of the Institutional Real Estate, Inc – Asia Pacific publication for nearly 15 years and remains an active contributor.

Selwyn Chong

Head of Research

Selwyn has over 20 years’ experience across the financial services sector, with expertise in financial analysis, underwriting, corporate strategy, capital management and risk management.

Selwyn began his career as a Property Insurance Underwriter at ACE Insurance, working in the Australian and Asia Pacific Head Office. He then joined Aegis Equities as an Equities Analyst, and has been responsible for equities coverage of the Insurance, Retail and Gaming sectors in Australia before moving to Promina, a Top 50 listed insurance group. During this time Selwyn worked as a corporate analyst and Strategy Manager and was involved in the group’s corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions as well as Promina’s merger with Suncorp. While at Suncorp, Selwyn’s responsibilities included the capital management of the general insurance operations, covering over $12 billion of investments and $4 billion in regulatory capital. He has also been involved in mergers and acquisitions in the financial services sector, strategic planning, financial forecasting, modelling and risk management.

In early 2016, Selwyn joined Property Investment Research as a Senior Analyst, before joining Core Property in July 2017. At Core Property, Selwyn is responsible for research across the listed and unlisted property sector in Australia.