Bruce Stafford Head of Marketing, QIC Limited (at time of writing) Bruce Stafford is the head of marketing at QIC and formerly executive manager marketing strategy for HESTA Super Fund for seven years. He is responsible for strategic marketing leadership across QIC's global asset classes of equities, fixed interest, property, infrastructure, absolute return strategies, private equity, capital management and beta strategies. His reputation for strong brand leadership, marketing innovation and integrating marketing and business strategy has seen him become one of Australia's most awarded superannuation marketers. Bruce has a Bachelor of Business and Marketing, and a Diploma of Market Research, and was awarded Marketer of the Year in 2004 by Rainmaker Planning and Strategy Division and the FEAL International Investments Conference Scholarship in 2007.
BRUCE STAFFORD | TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2008 Super funds have a technical heritage but to survive in tomorrow's much more competitive environment they will have to become true marketing organisations. Negotiating these challenges means coming to terms with choice of fund, industry consolidation ... Read more PAGE: 1 |
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Climbing to the top
DANIEL SHRIMSKI
MANAGING DIRECTOR
VANGUARD INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA LTD
MANAGING DIRECTOR
VANGUARD INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA LTD
Vanguard Australia managing director Daniel Shrimski is determined to propel the investment giant's superannuation product into the top 10 funds by assets under management by 2030. It's an audacious goal, even for a fund backed by the world's second largest asset manager. Andrew McKean writes.