State Super Financial Services makes key appointment
State Super Financial Services has appointed James Panaretos to the newly-created role of General Manager of Business Development.
The company's announcement said the appointment was in line with its strategic aim of providing specialist financial advice to public sector members of superannuation funds.
It said Panaretos would be responsible for providing leadership across institutional sales and relationship management and would report directly to SSFS managing director, Michael Monaghan.
Monaghan said that the new role was created to support the growth of the overall business and is in line with SSFS' long-term strategic plan to broaden its offering to institutional and corporate clients.
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