In a company announcement regarding the retirement of CEO Paul Cuddy, Bennelong Australian Equity Partners' (BAEP) also announced the appointment of Julian Beaumont as an investment director. In August 2015, when Cuddy retires from the company, Beaumont will take over joint responsibility of the restructured CEO role, together with Keith Hwang, director quantitative research and one of the founding team members.
Beaumont joins BAEP from Investors Mutual where he has worked for the last seven years, most recently as a portfolio manager of the Future Leaders and Industrial Share Funds.