The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has named the two independent directors who will be replacing the outgoing Kathryn Greiner and David Elsum.
Investment banker, Bruce Foy, and communications/marketing consultant, Rob Gerrand, will take up their new roles when the FPA board meets for the first time this year in February. Corinna Dieters, FPA chair, said the two independent directors were chosen because of the complementary skills they bring to the board. “FPA’s corporate governance and strategic management will be substantially strengthened by the combination of experience brought to us by Bruce and Rob,” Dieters said in a statement yesterday. However, the FPA has not released any details about its search for a new chief executive following the resignation of Kerrie Kelly, who is scheduled to finish up in March, six months shy of fulfilling her initial three-year contract. Kelly abandoned the FPA early to take up a position as executive director of the Insurance Council of Australia.
The role of IFM Investors in arranging a visit by a delegation of Australian super funds to the US last month gives a pointer to the scale of the longer-term ambitions of the global super-fund-owned asset manager, and a recent investment in the manager by the UK pension fund NEST is designed to give it even greater clout. IFM chair Cath Bowtell tells Investment Magazine the manager aims to be a partner to governments around the world as they seek capital to build critical infrastructure.
Glenda KorporaalMarch 21, 2025
