Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lost Julian Salisbury to a smaller asset manager after a series of changes in a $2.7 trillion unit that it has billed as key to propping up the stock.
Salisbury, chief investment officer of Goldman's asset- and wealth-management division, is leaving to join Sixth Street Partners as co-chief investment officer. The move follows leadership churn and multiple reorganizations in Goldman's asset-management business in recent years.
The 51-year-old executive is the latest high-profile departure from Goldman's top ranks and another blow for Chief Executive Officer David Solomon after turnover and strategic missteps have raised questions about the firm's leadership.
Early in Solomon's tenure, Salisbury was plucked out of a lucrative group that bet the firm's own money and asked to help run a revamped merchant bank. Then, when Goldman cleaved its wealth business from the money-management arm, it gave Salisbury a bigger remit. The move put the focus on an investor known for his money-making bets but with little experience running a large unit.
To address that, he was given a co-head in Luke Sarsfield last year, only for both of them to lose that perch after Goldman's management reversed course again. Sarsfield has also left the bank.
Solomon, who had forged ahead with plans to separate the asset-management and wealth business despite skepticism within the bank, cobbled those two groups back together in another organizational revamp in October.
