Ian has been a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1963 and has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1969. Until his retirement in August 1993, Ian had spent his entire professional life with the international firm of accountants, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Ian Cotton has eight years experience in the Life Settlements industry, building a fund from scratch to the largest open-ended fund in the world.