As Tyndall Investments prepares to announce its new head of marketing, former Suncorp Investment Management marketing chief Katherine Youhanna is considering an offer from the ex-Suncorp domestic equities team at Solaris.
Youhanna, who had been acting co-head of marketing with Maria Pavlellis, left Suncorp last week and was thought to have taken a marketing role with Solaris. However managing director of the new Australian equities manager, Denis Donohue, said Youhanna was only considering an offer at this stage. “;In all honesty it’s possibly a little early for us [to employ a marketer], but when someone of Katherine’s capability becomes available, you just make it work,”; he said. Donohue said Youhanna wanted to take some time off after her resignation from Suncorp, and asked for a short time to consider the Solaris offer. In any event, Donohue envisioned Solaris – which now has $210 million under management from four investors – would need a marketing staffer within six months. Meanwhile Suncorp IM’s southern states BDM, Roger Prezens, left last week for a similar role at UBS Global Asset Management.
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
