New faces at SGH, Bennelong and Grant Samuel
SG Hiscock & Company (SGH) has appointed the former chief investment officer - Australia, global investment research at Goldman Sachs Hamish Tadgell as the head of research in its concentrated equities team.
Tadgell has worked in institutional equity research in Australia and the UK for 16 years with roles at JBWere and Goldman Sachs, and seven years in professional services and will start with SGH on 1 August reporting to SGH20 portfolio manager Robert Hook.
His appointment takes the number of investment professionals at SGH to 16 and brings the research team of the SGH20 fund to a full complement.
Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM) has named Vivienne Lee as its new senior manager — institutional business creating a new role at GSFM in the process in which Lee will market GSFM's four local and international fund manager partners to institutional investors.
Lee will report to GFSM chief executive Andrew McKinnon and head of distribution Damien McIntyre and has held positions with Perennial Investment Partners, BT Funds Management, State Street Australia and Westpac Financial Services.
Lee will be based in Sydney and will have a national focus in her promotion of Epoch Investment Partners (global equities), Payden & Rygel Investment Management (global fixed income), Tribeca Investment Partners (Australian equities) and Triple 3 Partners (managed volatility) which collectively have $5.7 billion in funds under management through GSFM.
Bennelong Funds Management has also added to its numbers with the appointment of Ryan Durance to the role of Director of Distribution, Institutional shifting from Schroders PLC in London where he was an Equity Long/Short Product Manager.
Durance has also worked was an International Sales Manager at Cazenove Capital Management and as Private Banker, UK Private Bank at Barclays Wealth, as well as positions at Coutts & Co and Merchant Investors.
He will start with Bennelong this week and be based in Melbourne with his appointment following that, last month, of Julian Beaumont as Investment Director with the Bennelong Australian Equity Partners.
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