Harrison departs Hillross
Hillross Financial Services’ managing director Jonathan Harrison has resigned.
Harrison will take up another posting within the AMP Group, as general manager for customer solutions at AMP Financial Services. The new role will see him re-sponsible for product development and product marketing.
Hillross Financial Services’ managing director Jonathan Harrison has resigned.
Harrison will take up another posting within the AMP Group, as general manager for customer solutions at AMP Financial Services. The new role will see him re-sponsible for product development and product marketing.
During his term as head of Hillross, the group has grown to become one of the larger financial planning dealerships in Australia, with about $4 billion in funds under advice and 190 planners on board.
Harrison was heavily involved in the development of the Hillross Business System — the group’s technology platform, which includes its PortfolioCare master trust. The group will this year realise its aim to offer consolidated reporting on its retail funds when InvestmentLink is launched in the third quarter of this year. (It will also provide consolidated reporting for AMP’s retail funds through AMP Cli-ent/Product Data.
“We’ll have completed a journey we’ve been on since early 1998,” Harrison told Money Management last week.
Deputy managing director and national network manager at Hillross Anne Fitz-gerald will assume the day to day running of the group until a replacement is named for Harrison’s position.
Harrison is replacing Ian Laughlin in his new role. Laughlin will move into a strat-egy based role at AMP Financial Services.
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