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JPMorgan Funds hires RIA-channel sales executive

FWR Staff 8 July 2008

JPMorgan Funds hires RIA-channel sales executive

Lundquist moves over wirehouse channel to lead investment-advisor support. JPMorgan Funds has made Steve Lundquist head of sales and support to RIAs. He had previously been the mutual-fund unit's national sales manager to the five wirehouses.

Key component

"We congratulate Steve on his new responsibilities and are confident that he will bring the knowledge, experience and drive required to successfully build JPMorgan's RIA channel, a key component of our business," says JPMorgan Funds' president and CEO George Gatch.

Prior to Lundquist's latest appointment, Gatch had direct responsibility for outreach to RIAs in addition to his other responsibilities, according to JPMorgan spokeswoman Jacqueline Meere.

Lundquist joined JPMorgan from Fidelity in 2001. Earlier he worked at Fortis Financial (now part of Hartford Financial).

JPMorgan Funds is the U.S. mutual-fund arm of JPMorgan Asset Management, a division of New York-based JPMorgan Chase. JPMorgan Asset Management, JPMorgan Private Client Services and JPMorgan Private Bank managed $1.2 trillion at the end of March 2008. -FWR

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