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New Head of Retail for Zurich’s UK Life business

Global insurer Zurich announces the appointment of new Head of Retail.

Lighthouse Group appoints Managing Director

He was Membership Recruitment Manager within BWA.

Double hire for Jupiter's fixed interest team

'Their appointments will help us enhance our offering to clients, putting us in a strong position for the next stage of our development.'

Senior hires announced for GLG's macro and fixed income platform

Opalesque Industry Update - GLG, the discretionary investment manager of Man Group plc announced a number of senior hires to its macro and fixed income team. The appointments are part of a focus on expanding GLGs strategy as it relates to absolute return

Coutts Names Private Office Director

He joins Coutts from Lloyds Private Banking

Aegon appoints new distribution chief

Waller’s appointment as Gale’s replacement is subject to FSA approval

TCA Fund Management Announces Senior Level Appointments

Donna Silverman has added to her previous managing director role, the title of Portfolio Manager

Tax expert joins Thomas Eggar’s private client team

Previously a Director at Berwin Leighton Paisner, he also worked as a senior investigator in the Special Compliance Office of the Inland Revenue with a focus on high-profile cases of suspected tax avoidance and evasion.

Palaedino Fund appoints 5 managers to develop passive index strategy

"Since the fund was launched in January 2010, we have used a blended investment approach combining active and passive management."

Societe Generale Private Banking announces management changes

Societe Generale Private Banking (SGPB) has made the following appointments, effective from 1st January 2013:

Carmignac hires head of marketing from SocGen

She also has held the positions of global head of equity sales and chairwoman of SG Securities and head of Paris floor for global equity flow.

Rathbones boosts Exeter office with Coutts hire

He joins from Coutts where he was a senior private banker.

Vanguard hires Lomholt from BlackRock

Lomholt will be responsible for managing Vanguard’s product range and its ETF capital markets team, as well as providing technical support to the company’s client-facing functions.

Charles Stanley appoints investment director for D2C launch

Prior to joining Charles Stanley, McNeill held positions at ABN Amro and Barclays de Zoete Wedd.

BlueCrest Hires Former Credit Suisse Currency Head

Maydell, who previously worked at Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP and Deutsche Bank AG

Legal & General investment chief to leave

He has formerly worked as head of UK retail at Henderson, chief executive for multi-manager and UK retail at Axa Investment Managers and managing director of multi-manager at Fidelity.

Kleinwort Benson announces senior private wealth management appointments

Announces the immediate appointment of new Executive Director – Business Development, and Director – Business Development.

JC Flowers executive to run RBS bank branches

THE US private equity consortium attempting to buy the 316 branches being sold by Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to hand control of the business to the former chief executive of one of Australia’s largest banks, if it wins the bid.

ECU Group boosts board

The ECU Group has announced further appointments to the Board.

Wright appointment for BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas Real Estate has appointed Edward Wright, formerly a partner at Lawrence Tattersalls, as a director within its Sheffield rating team.

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