Russell Investment Group has hired two people to its institutional business development team.
Russell Investment Group has hired two people to its institutional business development team.
Paul Taylor and Laird Abernethy will join the company and report to Russell director of institutional sales Chris Briant. Briant was hired by the company in July.
Taylor previously worked for Legg Mason as a business development manager. At Legg Mason he worked with the company's corporate superannuation master trust. He will be based in Russell's Melbourne office.
Abernethy joins from Asgard where he was a business superannuation consultant. He has also worked for BT Financial Group.
"The challenges facing our institutional clients continue to mount in the face of volatile markets and pressure to produce consistent long-term returns," Russell managing director of institutional investor services Stephen Roberts said.
Russell's master trust business manages $3.5 billion.
In Part 2 of our exclusive series, we ask leading names to nominate their best investments, the most effective industry group and the importance of platforms.
Advance appoints two, hikes fees »
St George Bank's funds management arm, Advance Asset Management, has appointed global property trusts CB Richard Ellis and European Investors to its manager line-up and terminated one of its two domestic managers.
Nestle, CSR, Rinker hire Russell »
Three of Australia's biggest companies have hired Russell Investment Group to run their superannuation accounts.
A complaint by a reader about our reporting of two Sydney planners facing jail made us do a little research on the subject of who can be called a planner.... read more »
