05/07/2014
Premier hires regional sales duo
Premier Asset Management has boosted its regional sales team through the appointment of Kames Capital’s Paul Keogh and Richard Farquhar from Alliance Trust.
Executive Moves
05/07/2014
J.P. Morgan names 2 co-heads for commodities unit
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. named two executives as co-heads of its commodities business to replace outgoing unit chief Blythe Masters.
05/07/2014
Cortland Opens Office in London
The new London office combined with Ms. Ritchie’s appointment signifies a major expansion of Cortland’s business activities.
05/07/2014
Rathbones continues Edinburgh rebuild with Adam & Co hire
He will work with regional director John Henderson and Edinburgh deputy head Andrew Mackintosh-Walker, with the team managing £280 million of private client, charity, trust and pension portfolios.
05/07/2014
Equities chief departs Baring Asset Management
Tim Scholefield, head of equities at Baring Asset Management, has left the company, which has recruited a senior emerging-markets fund manager at a French asset management boutique to succeed him.
05/07/2014
Second Private Client Partner to leave Reeves in month
Reeves Private Client Partner is to leave the firm after four years in order to take up a partner position at North London firm Berg Kaprow Lewis
05/07/2014
Ex-Citywire AA-rated man replaces Scholefield as Barings equity head
He will also serve as a member of the group’s investment committee and chair of the global sector teams.
05/06/2014
St James's Place taken to task for hiring Neil Woodford
Investors question whether it was wise to award star fund manager £3.6bn mandate following fine for his old employer Invesco Perpetual
05/06/2014
Barclays Tech Banking Chairman to Join Evercore
Chairman of technology banking is leaving to join Evercore Partners Inc. as a senior managing director, joining a line of bankers exiting the British firm.
05/06/2014
Investcorp adds managing director of hedge fund marketing
Franklyn Chang joined Investcorp as a managing director to head hedge fund marketing.
05/06/2014
Goodby joins Towers Watson Insurance Investment Advisory Group
Towers Watson has appointed Keith Goodby as a senior investment consultant in the firm’s Insurance Investment Advisory Group (IIAG) to focus on expanding the company’s investment services to insurance companies, which include asset allocation,
05/06/2014
UK Wealth manager boosts financial planning team with Sanlam hire
Joining the firm’s financial planning team with immediate effect he joins from Sanlam Private Investment where he was a senior financial planner.
05/06/2014
Société Générale's Sabatier Joins Etrali Trading Solutions
During his time at SocGen, Sabatier was in charge of improving the firm's retail banking telephony services, and deploying Etrali Trading Solutions' Open Trade technology on SocGen's trading floors.
05/06/2014
Brown Shipley poaches Coutts head as director
At Brown Shipley he will be responsible for developing the private banking and wealth management proposition.
05/05/2014
Barclays head of M&A to quit ahead of shake-up
Barclays’ head of mergers and acquisitions is expected to quit, which would take to four the number of high-level bankers it has lost in the week before it unveils a strategic revamp.
05/05/2014
RHJ International Announces Revised Board Structure
RHJ International is a financial services group with principal activities in wealth management
05/05/2014
Charles Stanley hires Redmayne Bentley Oxford trio
This is a logical move for Charles Stanley and very much in the interests of the new teams’ existing clients
05/02/2014
Fund boutique's chief & chair exit in boardroom overhaul
Switzerland's Hansa Aktiengesellschaft acquired the firm under its previous identity, SVG Investment Managers, last August.
05/02/2014
Banking technology chief quits Commonwealth for Barclays
The move marks the end of a tenure that has seen CBA reinvent itself as a leader in the technology space
05/02/2014
Former L&G pensions chief joins trustee firm
According to figures from the UK's Pensions Regulator, 44% of the biggest funds have independents on their boards.