{"id":69931,"date":"2024-02-15T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=69931"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T03:40:23","slug":"iextend-appoints-new-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/iextend-appoints-new-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"iExtend Appoints New Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iExtend has announced the appointment of <strong>Peter Cassidy<\/strong> as its new Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The company says Cassidy brings a wealth of experience to the role \u201c\u2026at a time of significant growth and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69934\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/Peter-Cassidy1-e1707954808450.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69934\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/Peter-Cassidy1-e1707954808450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Cassidy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It notes Cassidy was the founder of AMP\u2019s private capital business in 1993 and in 2001 he founded private equity firm The Sentient Group before retiring in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>iExtend CEO <strong>David Sarkis<\/strong> says Cassidy joins at a busy and pivotal moment \u201c\u2026where we have the opportunity to scale our business with the adviser support we have built and further develop our enterprise solutions to elevate our &#8230; offering for licensees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Riskinfo reported in November, ASIC had required iExtend to apply for an Australian Financial Services licence and the company is awaiting formal confirmation this has been granted (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2023\/11\/23\/asic-accepts-iextend-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASIC Accepts iExtend EU<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>iExtend says an AFSL &#8220;&#8230;provides clarity as to how iExtend can participate in the industry as well as providing further opportunities to educate and inform advisers about the offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iExtend has announced the appointment of Peter Cassidy as its new Chairman. The company says Cassidy brings a wealth of experience to the role \u201c\u2026at a time of significant growth and opportunity.\u201d It notes Cassidy was the founder of AMP\u2019s private capital business in 1993 and in 2001 he founded private equity firm The Sentient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":69937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}