Founder and Managing Director, Pinnacle Investment Management Group
Ian Macoun is a pioneer of the ‘boutique movement’ of fund managers. He is the founder and managing director of Pinnacle Investment Management Group (ASX: PNI), Australia’s largest multi-affiliate investment management group. Pinnacle has 18 Affiliated investment managers globally with over $150 billion in aggregate funds under management (at 31 December 2024).
Ian is a director of Pinnacle affiliates; Aikya, Antipodes, Coolabah, Hyperion, Langdon, Life Cycle, Metrics, Palisade, Plato, Resolution Capital, and Solaris.
With broad investment, financial and business experience, including 30 years leading several investment management firms, Ian’s career to date has included the establishment of Australia’s first multi-boutique funds management firm (Perennial Investment Partners; founding Managing Director, from 1998), building a major new investment corporation (Queensland Investment Corporation; inaugural Chief Executive, from 1988), and the reconstruction of a major Australian bank’s investment operation (Westpac Investment Management; Managing Director, from 1993).
His early experience, in more than 10 years at Queensland Treasury, included extensive involvement with many major Australian and international financial market participants, and leading the Queensland Government’s commercial participation in many major industrial development projects during the boom years of the late 1970’s and the 1980’s.