This year’s top 10 stories included a peek into AustralianSuper’s international equities build out in London, AMP’s move to slash employee benefits, and plenty of hard-hitting analysis of the issues that matter in institutional investment. But the real story is how readers helped shape all of that coverage.
Orbis’ Stuart Place is riding from Melbourne to the Moon and Back to fund a treatment for the “monster of a disease” that his youngest son was born with. The investment industry is rallying behind him.
IO&C expands management team
IO&C, the conference business which produces this newsletter, has recruited the services of John Hamer, an experienced funds management executive, as a consulting conference producer.
Hamer, who was most recently a sales and marketing executive in funds management at Pengana Capital, will be working part-time with IO&C, which is a business unit of Binalong Advisory Services, starting immediately. He will retain his directorship and consulting work for the public relations firm of Shed Media.
His 25-year career includes being country head for US manager Nicholas Applegate and holding senior marketing roles at Suncorp Investment Management, Challenger, BNP Paribas and BT Funds Management.
For IO&C, Hamer will be assisting in all aspects of conference production and sales, starting with the Shanghai Conference on World’s Best Practice in investment operations and custody, being held this April 29-30.
