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Biography of Richard Shields
Name
Richard Shields
Title
Managing Director
Company
AMP Capital Investors


Biography
Richard heads up AMP Capital’s UK office, which is home to three investment teams across global real estate securities, infrastructure and private debt. Richard’s primary focus is on business development, particularly in terms of large UK/European pension funds and other institutional investors. Richard was appointed to this role in March 2008. Prior to this, Richard was Executive Director of AMP Capital Redding Investors, where he was responsible for managing business development and strategic relationships across the company’s global property securities business. In his time at AMP Capital, Richard has also been Manager of Institutional Product Development and Senior Investment Specialist, Property. He also served as Fund Manager for the Development Australia Fund, an Australian Private Equity Fund of Funds. Richard joined AMP Capital in 1993 in the Client Servicing Division, where he was responsible for wholesale business development, servicing major institutional superannuation funds and investment management for general insurance clients. Before joining AMP Capital, Richard had several positions in Australian financial markets, including General Manager of Financial Markets for Australian Bank and as an Executive Manager in the Commonwealth Bank’s Capital Markets division where he was responsible for developing the Bank’s securitisation program. He started his financial markets career as a bond dealer.