Ask the chief executive of AMP for examples of risky jobs she has undertaken and she does not mention the troubled wealth manager.
“Many people I have talked to say that. I’ve never regarded it as such,” she says.for the six months ended June 30. There was no interim dividend, but the board said it would return $1.1 billion to shareholders. UBS analysts said the result was “mixed”, noting AMP had missed the consensus estimate of underlying earnings.
In the 12 months since arriving at AMP from ANZ, where she was deputy chief executive, George has presided over considerable change on the business front. “My parents both loved me, but if we wanted to go and play sport, we walked to the sporting oval. They weren’t going to drive us there and pick us up.” And, George says, they were “allowed to go and do whatever we wanted,” which often included going to the river to build campfires, where she and her friends would cook potatoes and damper.
Of BT she says: “There was an incredible group of really driven, smart, but fun people. The environment was fun, and you were given opportunities that perhaps you shouldn’t been at those young ages.”“I think you’ve always had to be just a little bit better and work a little bit harder [than the men].
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