Australia's second biggest superannuation fund Aria has appointed Alison Tarditi as its chief investment officer and plans to make further senior appointments.
The fund, which has $17 billion invested on behalf Australia's public servants, finally settled on Tarditi after months of media speculation.
She joins from Citigroup Smith Barney where she spent four years as a director of equity strategy.
ARIA chief executive Steve Gibbs said Tarditi had the experience and the thinking to take the fund to the next level. "We are growing all the time and will be making one or two more senior appointments before the end of the year."
One of Tarditi's first jobs will be to review Aria's asset allocation with a view to making potential manager changes in the second half of the year.
Aria's former chief investment officer, André Morony, left the fund to pursue other interests in November. Many have tipped him to take on the chief investment officer job at the Future Fund.
Tarditi has a long history in Australian financial services, which includes spells at the Reserve Bank of Australia as a senior economist, BT financial Group as a senior economic strategist, and Principal Global Investors as executive vice president.
