Andrew Lill to lead Russell's investment consulting practice in Australia
SYDNEY, 12 August, 2005 – Global investment and superannuation specialist, Russell Investment Group, has announced that Andrew Lill will take on the role of Director of Investment Consulting for their Australian operations. This announcement follows the decision by David Hartley to take on a more ‘hands on’ investment management position with Sunsuper, one of Russell's major investment consulting clients.
Russell Investment Consulting is one of Australia ’s leading investment advisors with $80bn in Australian sourced assets under advice for large institutional investors. Globally Russell's investment consulting business continues to lead the financial services industry with the 2005 Annual Report of Pension Fund Consultants showing Russell ranked No.1 in total assets.
Mr Stephen Roberts, Russell’s Managing Director Institutional Investment Services, said “ Andrew's appointment is an exciting step in the evolution of Russell's Investment Consulting services in Australia . Over the past two years our focus has been on expanding the breadth and depth of our investment consulting services, reinforcing Russell's position as Australia 's most established global investment consultant. During this time we have expanded the team to include a specialist alternative asset and strategy research group as well as a capital markets research group.”
The specialist asset and strategy research group is responsible for identifying implementation strategies for global and Australian private equity and infrastructure, as well as global multi strategy hedge fund-of-funds and timber, oil and gas. Russell have also increased their commitment to primary capital markets research with the appointment of Dennis Sams to Director, Capital Markets. Dennis works with Dr. Craig Ansley and Yvonne Ooi to ensure that our clients are at the leading edge of the investment curve.
Mr. Roberts continued, “As one of our leading senior consultants, Andrew has played a critical role in the development of the consulting practice during this important phase. He has clearly demonstrated a strong creativity, dedication and focus in the investment consulting arena.”
Andrew Lill has worked with a range of Russell’s large institutional clients. Prior to joining Russell in 2002, he was a partner and head of manager research at Lane Clark & Peacock's (LCP) London office. During this time, LCP established itself as among the top five advice driven consulting companies within the UK . Prior to this Andrew was an Investment Analyst with Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting in their London office.
The announcement follows the decision by David Hartley to leave Russell to take up the Chief Investment Officer position with Sunsuper, a move he has made to return to a role that allows him to be more actively involved with the implementation of investment strategy. David Hartley joined Russell as Director of Investment Consulting in 2003.
Mr Roberts said, “ We would also like to take this opportunity to thank David for his important contribution in steering Russell's investment consulting team over the past two years. As Sunsuper is a client of Russell’s we look forward to continuing to work with David, and wish him all the best in his new role. David leaves a high caliber investment consulting team in place at Russell.” David Hartley will finish up at Russell in early September.
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