Perpetual reshuffles senior roles
Perpetual Investments has announced changes to its senior ranks and has appointed its general manager, sales superannuation and investment solutions (SIS), Matt Mckinnon, to the role of general manager, retail sales Australian equities.
Mckinnon succeeds Paul Sewell, who resigned last month.
Replacing Mckinnon as SIS general manager will be Perpetual’s senior business development manager, superannuation and investment solutions, Paul Norris.
Mckinnon previously held senior sales and product development roles at IOOF, Rothschild Australia Asset Management, Portfolio Partners, Morgan Stanley International and Merrill Lynch in London.
“In the past 18 months the SIS sales team under [Mckinnon’s] leadership has developed significant sales momentum across its key products,” Perpetual group executive of investments business services Cathy Doyle said.
Norris has also previously held the position of senior client services manager at Perpetual.
Prior to this he worked with ING Australia, AMP, Colonial First State and HSBC.
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