AMP Capital has announced team changes which will see its senior directors swap locations with one leaving Asia and one relocating there.
The Sydney based global investment manager AMP Capital is making a number of changes to the leadership team. In a press release it says the move is to support clients and the firm’s growth in key asset classes and regions.
Craig Keary, currently AMP Capital Director of Australia and New Zealand, will become AMP Capital Director, Asia Pacific. Keary will retain responsibility for Australia and New Zealand and assume leadership of AMP Capital’s operations in Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Currently based in Sydney, he will relocate to Asia in the coming months.
Back Down Under
Hong Kong based Anthony Fasso, currently AMP Capital Director, Asia, and Global Head of Portfolio Strategy, has expressed a desire to return to Australia after 23 years in the region including seven with AMP Capital.
He will retain his portfolio strategy responsibilities and will remain on the AMP Capital leadership team, based in Melbourne. In this role, Fasso will continue to focus on opportunities to accelerate AMP Capital’s growth through targeted mergers and acquisitions.
Promotions And Departures
Simon Warner, Head of Global Fixed Income in Sydney, and London-based David Allen, Global Head of Equities, have been elevated to the role of Global Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for their respective asset classes and will sit on the AMP Capital leadership team, reporting to CEO Adam Tindall.
As a result, Mark Beardow, AMP Capital CIO of Global Equities and Fixed Income, will leave the business.
«Asia is a critical market for AMP Capital, by creating an Asia Pacific region, we are better integrating our operations across Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and Asia more broadly,» commented Tindall.
The changes are effective 27 March 2017. Management of AMP Capital’s other divisions remain unchanged.
