Bleakley joins ING advice executive
FormerBridges Financial Servicesmanaging director David Bleakley will joinINGas theRetireInvestboard chair, Tandem director and chair of the Investment Selection Committees for the two dealer groups.
Bleakley will also chair the group’s board of advice in a role he says will be more strategic and able to use the 20 years of industry experience he has gained in financial planning and advice.
His role, which has been newly formed by ING, will be part time which he says is part of the evolution of his career and fits in with ING’s desire to have “a senior citizen of the industry on hand to give advice”.
Bleakley will begin with ING in early April and while briefed on the issues within ING he says it is too early to comment on what strategic advice he will be offering the group.
Bleakley signing on with ING represents a return of sorts after the financial planning group founded by him and bearing his name in 1981 was merged with Adviser Investment Services into Partnership Planning in late 2000.
The mergers took place after ING, then known as Mercantile Mutual, had purchased the two groups in the early 90s. Since then Partnership Planning has been merged with a number of other ING-owned dealer groups to form Tandem.
“From what I understand the Bleakley’s name is still on the ING books and so it is a homecoming as parts of Bleakley’s still lie under Tandem and now I am a director of the latter, which shows how small this market still is in some ways,” he says.
Since leaving the group he founded Bleakley has held senior executive roles withAdvance,Towerand Bridges.
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