Jim Minto Managing Director, TAL Limited (at time of writing) Jim Minto is chief executive officer of TOWER Australia Group. He joined TOWER over 16 years ago when he was appointed managing director of Trustees Executors (the New Zealand Trust Company wholly owned by TOWER). From August 1998 through to November 2002, Minto held, at various times, the positions of managing director TOWER Trust, managing director of TOWER Managed Funds, managing director TOWER Health & Life and chief executive TOWER New Zealand. Minto has been a member of a number of boards ranging from schools to financial and charitable, and a member of various industry bodies including Trustee Corporations Association, Investment Funds Association (IFSA's predecessor), Health Funds Association and ISI. He was also chair the IAFP Taskforce on Regulation in the early 1990s.
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Passing the baton
LIAM ROCHE
ADVICE ASSOCIATE
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ADVICE ASSOCIATE
EUREKA WHITTAKER MACNAUGHT PTY LTD
Liam Roche's experience in customer relationships and paraplanning has set him up for success as a financial adviser. Now undertaking the Professional Year, the advice associate at Eureka Whittaker Macnaught tells Karren Vergara how a new breed of advisers is flying the flag.