MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO—(Marketwired – Mar 15, 2016) – BMO Global Asset Management today announced the appointment of Jonathan Goll as Director of Institutional Business for BMO Global Asset Management (Asia Pacific).
In this role, Mr. Goll will be responsible for institutional sales in the Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia markets. He will be based in Sydney, Australia and report to Ravi Sriskandarajah, Managing Director and Head, BMO Global Asset Management (Asia Pacific).
Mr. Goll has 17 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining BMO, he spent more than 11 years with Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co. (GMO), a Boston–based asset management firm, working as a Senior Client Relationship Manager in both their Singapore and Berkeley, California offices. He has also held the position of Investment Consultant with Towers Perrin in Australia.
“Jonathan's experience with institutional clients and business development make him a great fit for this role and a welcome addition to our team,” said Mr. Sriskandarajah. “His skills align with our commitment to providing investors in the Asia Pacific region with a world–class team dedicated to service excellence.”
BMO Financial Group has had a presence in Australia since 2004, when BMO Capital Markets Limited opened a representative office in Melbourne offering investment and corporate banking services to global clients doing business in the Asia Pacific region. In 2013, BMO Global Asset Management established a local base for its institutional asset management business in Melbourne, to focus on sales and serving the needs of Australia's and New Zealand's institutional investors.
About BMO Global Asset Management
BMO Global Asset Management is a global investment manager delivering service excellence from 27 offices in 17 countries to clients across five continents. Including discretionary and nondiscretionary assets, BMO Global Asset Management had CDN $304 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2016.
Our four major investment centres in Toronto, Chicago, London and Hong Kong are complemented by a network of world–class boutique managers strategically located across the globe: BMO Real Estate Partners, LGM Investments, Monegy, Inc., Pyrford International Ltd., and Taplin, Canida & Habacht, LLC. BMO Global Asset Management has operations throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sydney and is a signatory of the United Nations–supported Principles for Responsible Investment initiative (UNPRI).
BMO Global Asset Management is a part of BMO Financial Group, a highly diversified financial services provider based in North America with total assets of CDN $699 billion as of January 31, 2016, and close to 47,000 employees.
For more information about BMO Global Asset Management, please visit: www.bmogam.com.