Yarra bolsters sales team

Tim Mugglestone has landed at Yarra Capital Management as a research relationship manager with the distribution team.

Mugglestone joins Yarra from BT Financial Group, where was an investment specialist.

In that role, he was responsible for managing BT's wholesale, institutional, and retail relationships and new business opportunities.

He also worked as an assistant portfolio manager while at the group.

Earlier in his career, he interned at Macquarie Group's infrastructure and real assets business.

He has also previously worked as an auditor at Kelly Partners.

At Yarra, Mugglestone will be responsible for managing and developing deep relationships with key research houses and will provide end-to-end management of investment strategy reviews, working closely with the leadership team to showcase the firm's investment capabilities.

"We are delighted to welcome Tim to the team as we continue to grow Yarra as one of Australia's leading independent active fund managers," said Yarra managing director Edward Eason.

"He has a demonstrated track record in building strong relationships and will assist the team in continuing to develop new business opportunities."