Perennial appoints veteran trio to distribution team

Perennial Partners has announced three senior additions to its distribution team, including a new director for private wealth.

Scott Curtis, formerly of Warakirri Asset Management, joins Perennial as the investment firm’s newly appointed director of private wealth and family office.

Curtis, who has notched up nearly 15 years in the financial services industry, previously served as Warakirri’s first business development manager (BDM) for its then newly opened Sydney office, appointed to the role in 2020.

Promoted as Warakirri’s regional manager for NSW and QLD in 2022, Curtis oversaw the Sydney office’s wholesale IFA and private wealth segments, including high net worth (HNW), retail advisory, and family office clients across NSW and Queensland. Previously, he held business development and origination roles at private equity specialist Liverpool Partners and Microequities Asset Management.

Joining Curtis as part of Perennial’s latest hiring blitz is Vlad Laevsky, appointed as investment specialist for Queensland.

Laevsky was most recently BDM at wealth platform HUB24. Over his six years with the wealthtech, for the large part of his tenure based in its Brisbane office, he also managed sales and distribution in Queensland. Previously, Laevsky served as business development (associate manager) of wealth distribution at Macquarie Group.

Complementing Laevsky is Tom Richardson, who joins Perennial as investment specialist for Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

Richardson was most recently BDM for the Lonsec Group, responsible for building and delivering campaigns to penetrate new adviser market segments including dealer group and platform-aligned segments.

Across his 15-year career in financial services, Richardson has held BDM roles at MLC and Rubrik Financial, and was practice implementation manager at Magnitude, part of the BT Financial Group.

Commenting on the firm’s latest senior hires, Perennial’s head of distribution Cesar Farfan welcomed the trio’s “deep, specialist experience and strong capability to our growing sales and distribution team across Australia”.

“Their appointments reflect our continued strategic focus on equipping and resourcing Perennial Partners to continue to enhance our service and support to the evolving institutional and wholesale markets in Australia.”

Perennial Partners manages more than $8.5 billion in funds across seven boutique investment firms, including Perennial Value and Daintree Capital.