As the autumn season got under way the appointment merry-go-round cranked into gear around the world.

UK
Old Mutual Wealth announced the departure of Stewart Cazier, John Ventre and François Zagamé. Cazier, previously Old Mutual Wealth's chief operating officer of distribution, was appointed to Old Mutual Global Investors in May to lead the new investment solutions team. OMGI's multi-asset head Ventre and fund manager Zagamé also left the business.

Old Mutual Wealth also hired Gary Dale from Investec to lead its advisory sales. At Investec, Dale was head of intermediary sales for derivatives and structured products. Old Mutual Wealth's new investment division combines capabilities from subsidiaries Quilter Cheviot and Old Mutual Global Investors. It covers portfolio management, fund research, asset allocation and the Managed Portfolio Service. The 24-strong multi-asset investment solutions unit is now be headed up by Ben Mountain and Anthony Gillham. Mountian joined Quilter Cheviot in 1999 and has been joint head of the firm's Managed Portfolio Service since 2012, alongside his role as head of the investment fund research team. Gillham joined Old Mutual in 2000 and is a portfolio manager within its multi-asset team. 

JWG, a London-based think-tank for financial services regulation, appointed Blythe Barber as managing director. Barber has over 12 years' experience in capital markets, having held a number of senior positions including director at Expand Research, part of the Boston Consulting Group, managing principal at Capco and senior trader at Schneider Trading Associates.

Arbuthnot Latham made two appointments to its wealth planning team in Manchester. Jacqui Davidson-Slack joined from Brewin Dolphin where she has worked for the last eight years as financial planning director serving business and private clients. Andrew Waters also joined as a wealth planning executive from Cheshire-based advisory firm Kellands (Hale). Before this, he worked at Barclays Wealth & Investment Management between 2006 and 2014.

Neuberger Berman appointed Jonathan Geoghegan from HSBC to its UK financial institutions and intermediaries client group. Berman joined from HSBC Global Asset Management where he was senior relationship manager for six years. He previously he held similar roles at Architas Multi Managers, Invesco Perpetual and Schroders. 

The UK's Seven Investment Management hired Guy Christie as relationship manager. Christie previously headed up Asset Risk Consultants' London office. He left the role in May after just seven months. Before ARC, Christie served as client director at Schroders.

London-listed Alliance Trust appointed former Ignis chief Chris Samuel as non-executive director. Samuel was chief executive of Ignis Asset Management from 2009 until its takeover last year by Standard Life Investments. Before Ignis, he served as chief operating officer at Gartmore and Hill Samuel. The company also appointed Karl Sternberg as non-executive director. Sternberg was founding partner of Oxford Investment Partners where he worked from 2006 to 2013 and prior to this, held several roles at Deutsche Asset Management, including global head of equities and chief investment officer for Europe and Asia Pacific.

Allianz Global Investors hired Mike Riddell from M&G as UK fixed income portfolio manager. Riddell joined from M&G Investments where he was an active contributor to the Bond Vigilantes blog, writing regularly on global fixed income topics, and was particularly well-known for his bearish view of China. He brings almost 15 years' experience in international fixed income markets. Based in London, Riddell reports to Mauro Vittorangeli, chief investment officer for conviction fixed income at Allianz GI.

Morton Fraser appointed Graham Scott as a partner within its private client team in Edinburgh. Scott joined Morton Fraser from Aberdein Considine where he was partner and head of private client. He previously served as partner and head of the private client team at Murray Beith Murray.

 Vestra Wealth hired three investment managers from rival firms to serve its high net worth clients. Steve Jenkins, Paul Pascoe and Joanna Hunt previously held roles at UBS, Barclays and Citi respectively. In their new roles as investment managers, they manage assets for private clients, trustees, corporate clients and pension funds. Jenkins joined from UBS where he was executive director, responsible for managing discretionary and advisory portfolios. He formerly served as director at Barclays and vice president at Merrill Lynch International Bank. Pascoe joined from his position as director and private banker at Barclays Wealth; Hunt was previously a private banker at Citi Private Bank.

The Financial Conduct Authority appointed Georgina Philippou as its new chief operating officer. Philippou had been acting director for enforcement and market oversight; she replaced David Godfrey, who took up the position on an interim basis following the exit of ex-COO Lesley Titcomb. She brings over 20 years’ experience of regulation in the UK.

Kames Capital hired Grace Le from PricewaterhouseCoopers as a trainee investment-grade bond manager. Le joined from her postion as senior associate, risk assurance/audit at PwC, where she supported the audit functions at various financial institutions. Based in Kames' Edinburgh office, she reports to Stephen Snowden.

London-listed asset manager Gresham House appointed Rupert Robinson, who has been a member of that firm’s investment advisory committee since last October, as managing director of Gresham House Asset Management. 

James Cowper Kreston, an accounting and advisory firm based in the Thames Valley region, appointed senior manager Penny Bowen to its private client tax and rural business services team. Bowen previously worked at accountants Shaw Gibb in Oxford, where she managed its private client practice leading a team of eight. 

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management hired Daniel Lee from Allianz Global Investors as head of UK wholesale. Lee joined from Allianz Global Investors where he was sales director, UK discretionary, from late 2013. In the newly-created role, Lee is based in London.

Neptune Investment Management added three analysts to its London-based investment team. Rupert Galway-Cooper, Ruth Chambers and Sam Kelly undertake research on the consumer, oil and gas and industrials sectors respectively. Galway-Cooper joined from Sanford C Bernstein where he undertook global research on the energy and consumer sectors; Chambers previously served as an oil and gas equity research associate at the Bank of Montreal; and Kelly was an equity analyst for a long/short global hedge fund at Bremner Capital Management.

Investec Wealth & Investment's recently launched private office hired Pictet's Rafe Garvin as investment director. Garvin was previously vice president at Pictet & Cie in Geneva, where he managed over $1 billion in multi-currency portfolios for US clients. Before Pictet, Garvin led Royal Bank of Canada’s client investment delivery in London.

European investment house Amundi appointed Fabrice Bay as senior portfolio manager within its global equity team. Bay previously worked as an investment manager in international equities at Martin Currie. His former roles include hedge fund manager at GLG Partners and senior equity portfolio manager and chief investment officer at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management.

Financial advisory firm deVere Group appointed Peter Hobbs to the newly-created role of chairman. Hobbs joined the firm's board of directors in 2013 in a non-executive role, having previously served as director of Generali International and Generali Pan Europe, responsible for the Generali Group’s strategic innovation programmes and developments in more than 60 countries worldwide.

Investec Asset Management hired Matthew Oakeley from Schroders to fill the newly-created position of chief technology officer. Oakeley joined from his position as head of group information technology at Schroders. He brings 25 years' experience in managing technological innovation within the financial services and asset management industry. He is based in London.

Thesis Asset Management has appointed James Nield as office director of operations in Chichester, on the country’s south coast. Nield joined the business in 2014 as an investment manager from Oriel Securities, where he was a partner. The role was previously held by Michael Lally, who has been with Thesis since 1978. Lally remains as a director and a core part of the Thesis investment team, continuing to manage his existing clients and driving the firm’s investment strategy forward, according to a statement from Thesis.

Impax Asset Management appointed David Winborne as senior portfolio manager. He took on the newly-created role to help run Impax's existing equity strategies while working on new product development. He reports to the firm's head of listed equities, Bruce Jenkyn-Jones. Winborne previously worked at Tesco Pension Investment, where he helped launch and manage a new global equities investment platform. Before this, he was a fund manager at Sarasin & Partners, where he managed the firm’s Asia-Pacific equity fund.

The UK's Metro Bank appointed commercial banking director Julie Barnsley to lead its private banking business. Julie Barnsley replaced Kirsty MacArthur.
 

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Charles Stanley hired Peter Cooke from rival Brewin Dolphin and Sandy McPherson from Menzies Wealth Management. Cooke was appointed portfolio manager within the firm's Wimborne office. In his new role, he provides support on portfolio asset allocation, stock/fund selection and the monitoring of investments. McPherson joined as a financial planning and wealth management consultant in Southampton. He was previously a financial planner in Menzies Wealth Management's Solent and Farnborough offices. 

Miton Group announced the promotion of Piers Harrison to chief operating officer as finance director Robert Clarke exits the business. Harrison joined Miton as operations and risk management director two years ago. He was previously deputy finance director and head of operational risk at Neptune Investment Management. Meanwhile, Ian Chimes, who became Miton's head of sales and marketing in 2013, took on the new role of sales and marketing director. He previously served as managing director at Psigma Asset Management.

Woodfood Investment Management, the firm set up by widely-lauded industry figure Neil Woodfood in 2014, added six new figures to its team. Three investment analysts have joined the investment team and will work closely with fund managers, Paul Lamacraft, Saku Saha and Stephen Lamacraft. Lucinda Crabtree has worked in various analyst roles covering the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors at a number of investment banks, including Panmure Gordon, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. Richard Lockington joined from Duff & Phelps, the global valuations advisor, where he was senior associate working on valuations of intangible assets and businesses. Harry Raikes joins from Envestors, an FCA-regulated corporate finance advisor, where he evaluated proposals and conducted due diligence for unquoted companies. The operations function was also bolstered by three new hires. 

 

Mohammad Sohail joined from Ruffer as dealing and trade operations specialist to assist Grant Wentzel, head of trading. James Coats, formerly head of operations at MSK Capital Partners and Dominic Eccles, a lead operations analyst at BP’s asset management arm joined the firm to add further support to its operations functions.

Close Brothers Asset Management appointed Alan Knox as its new business Development Director to strengthen its links with intermediaries across Scotland and Northern Ireland. With over 14 years’ experience, Knox previously spent almost eight years with Old Mutual Wealth as a business development manager. 

The former chief executive of Standard Chartered, who left the bank in June, reportedly became an unpaid advisor to the UK government. Peter Sands is helping the Conservative-led government chart changes in the UK labour market. Sands doesn’t have a direct role in deciding on financial regulation issues.

Legal & General Investment Management appointed JP Morgan's Paul Sweeting to the new role of head of research within its solutions group. Sweeting joined from JP Morgan Asset Management where he was European head of the firm's strategy group. He was previously a professor of actuarial science at the University of Kent.

Bank of London and The Middle East, a bank offering Shariah-based financial products among other services, appointed Michael Williams as its chief executive. He has held the role on an interim basis since May this year. Prior his latest role, Williams was a senior independent non-executive director at BLME Holdings. 

Sarasin & Partners appointed CCLA's Simon Steele and Neil Mitchell as fund managers. The pair joined from investment and property fund manager CCLA.

SYZ Asset Management appointed Hartwig Kos to the newly-created role of vice-chief investment officer and co-head of its multi-asset team. Based in London, Kos co-manages the seven-strong team with chief investment officer Fabrizio Quirighetti, and took on the management of the OYSTER Multi-Asset Diversified Fund. Quirighetti and his Geneva-based team manages the OYSTER Multi-Asset Absolute Return EUR, OYSTER Absolute Return GBP and fixed income strategies. Kos joined from Baring Asset Management, where he was director in the firm's global multi-asset group, responsible for managing the Baring Euro Dynamic Asset Allocation Fund. He also co-managed the Baring Dynamic Emerging Market Fund and sat on the firm's asset allocation committee.

Berkeley Hurrell, the UK private wealth law firm, added Beth Carey to its team of London-based solicitors. Carey joined from VitalityLife where she was an inheritance tax and trusts specialist. Before this, she worked at Coutts & Co from 2007 to 2013.

Citi Private Bank hired Credit Suisse's James Bashford and Barclays' Nick Morris within its London-based private banker team. Bashford joined from Credit Suisse's private bank, having previously worked at Morgan Stanley before its wealth management arm was acquired by Credit Suisse in 2013. Here, he served UK-based ultra-high net worth clients, family offices and investment boutiques. In his new role, he will report to managing director Giles Thompson. Morris joined from Barclays Private Bank, where he spent eight years focusing on UK resident, domiciled and non-domiciled clients. He will report to the bank's managing director, Giles Crowe.

Exchange-traded product provider Source appointed a five-strong team to serve the UK financial advisory market. AXA Elevate's former development director, Dominic Clabby, served as director at Source, alongside Damian Yeomans, formerly associate director at HSBC Global Asset Management, and Chris Norsworthy, formerly responsible for intermediary coverage at Margetts Fund Management. Meanwhile, Ngozi Onyenemelu, formerly of Henderson Global Investors, joined as marketing associate for UK and Ireland, and Antoine Boulet, who previously worked in Societe Generale's structured products distribution team, serves as research analyst.

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UK fund house Jupiter promoted investment head Stephen Pearson to chief investment officer. Pearson, who joined Jupiter back in 2001 and was appointed as deputy investment chief in 2012, most recently served as head of investments. He took on the CIO role, replacing John Chatfeild-Roberts, who focuses on the Jupiter Merlin multi-manager portfolios, the largest of group's investment strategies with assets of over £8 billion. Chatfeild-Roberts remains a director of Jupiter Fund Management.

Old Mutual Global Investors decided to lose the role of chief operating officer following Paul Nathan's departure. Nathan, who initially joined Old Mutual back in 2000, returned to the group as COO of its asset management division in 2012 after a two-year stint leading operations at Saïd Business School. OMGI mutually agreed with Nathan that now is an appropriate time for him to leave to “explore opportunities outside of the group”.

GAM appointed UBS's Larry Hatheway in the newly-created role of group chief economist. Hatheway, previously managing director and chief economist at UBS Investment Bank, leads a centralised macroeconomic competency for GAM's multi-asset class solutions (MACS) business. He has also served as UBS's global head of asset allocation from 2000 to 2012. Hatheway brings expertise in a number of macroeconomic topics, including the state of deleveraging, fiscal and structural adjustment in advanced economies, and trend growth drivers in emerging economies. He is based in London and works with Graham Wainer, the business's group head of investments, and the MACS investment team.

Barclays Wealth and Investment Management hired Coutts' Arne Hassel as chief investment officer of its global investments and solutions team. Hassel joined the London office from his position as head of investments at Coutts Private Bank. Before Coutts, Hassel was co-head of multi-asset allocation at Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK-based pension fund. He formerly served as head of global currency management and head of the hedge fund strategies group for Europe and Asia at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Wedlake Bell hired Rosalyn Breedy as corporate and financial services partner. Breedy joins the corporate team from Forsters and brings expertise in complex financial regulation and compliance matters. She will work alongside the firm's private client, family and tax teams to advise individuals on their financial and wealth management needs. Having previously set up her own firm, Breedy Henderson, Breedy has advised clients including family offices, high net worth entrepreneurs, fund managers and trust companies.
London-based Vestra Wealth hired Jamie Frere-Scott from Ashcourt Rowan to lead its authorised funds. Frere-Scott joined after six months as funds director at Ashcourt Rowan. Before this, he served as Mobius Life's head of research and lead manager of its UK fixed income and UK equity funds, as well as co-manager of its multi-strategy and world equity funds.

EdenTree Investment Management appointed Philip Harris to run its UK Equity Growth Fund. Harris brought over 20 years’ experience as a UK smaller and mid-cap companies fund manager, and joined from RWC Partners. Before this, he spent 11 years at Hermes Focus Asset Management. Harris takes over from Rob Hepworth and Sue Round, who ran the fund on an interim basis following the departure of Andrew Jackson.

Tilney Bestinvest added four new faces to its UK-wide team of financial planners. The hires were David Durrant in East Anglia, Sally Bartrum in Bristol and Avon, Louise Higham in Manchester, and Mike Williams in Birmingham. Durrant joined from Wetherbys Private Banking where he spent five years as a financial planner. Bartram joined from Hargreaves Lansdown and has previously worked at Towry and Holden Meehan. Higham joined after four years at LJ Financial Planning. Lastly, Williams joined after a decade with HSBC, most recently as premier relationship manager, providing financial advice to around 600 high net worth clients.

AFH Financial Group's chief investment officer, Toby Deanne, left the business after a four-year stint to “focus on other business interests”. Deanne, who joined AFH in 2011, served as the company's executive director and chief investment officer. He has left the board but remains a significant shareholder, AFH announced on the London Stock Exchange.

Canada Life Investments appointed Ian Goulsbra as senior sales director, responsible for promoting the company’s offering in the UK discretionary market. Goulsbra reports to Frank Maret, head of distribution at Canada Life Investments. Previously, Goulsbra worked for almost eight years at Royal London Asset Management, latterly as head of wholesale relationships. Prior to this, he worked for Premier Asset Management as head of institutional sales and has also held the role of sales director at ISIS Asset Management.

Middle East
Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the offshore jurisdiction’s finance industry internationally, appointed Zoe Cousens as its first representative in the Middle East. Cousens is based in Dubai.

Switzerland
Julius Baer appointed Gerassimos Spyridakis as head of a newly created sub-region of Africa & Eastern Mediterranean, taking effect from the start of 2016. As of the same date, Daniel Ph. Savary, current sub-region head for Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East & Africa, is due to fully focus on leading the Middle Eastern markets and become deputy of Rémy A. Bersier, region head and member of the executive board.  Previously, Spyridakis has held various senior management positions at Citi Private Bank, including the roles of global head of Greece & Cyprus, Israel, Monaco and Africa.

Societe Generale Private Banking (Suisse) brought Olivier Lecler, Julien Duniague and Nicole Favre to its executive committee. Lecler, who was previously deputy chief executive of Societe Generale Bank & Trust in Luxembourg, became deputy chief executive of the Societe Generale Private Banking (Suisse) in September. Duniague was appointed head of sales and marketing of the Swiss business at the end of 2014, previously served as deputy head of sales and marketing. Lastly, Favre was appointed chief operating officer in June this year, having previously been deputy chief operating officer.

Europe
Deutsche Bank appointed Asoka Wöhrmann and Stefan Bender as the new heads of its private and commercial banking in Germany. Wöhrmann, who joined the bank back in 1998 and has most recently served as chief investment officer of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, became head of retail banking. Bender, who joined in 1997, is head of global transaction banking in Germany and co-head of corporate finance in Germany. He also took on the additional role of head of commercial banking. They replaced Peter Schedl and Wilhelm von Haller, who stepped down from their roles.

Barclays appointed Savvas Constantinou as country director of Cyprus, reporting to Neil Jenkin, director at the bank. Savvas will be responsible for leading the corporate and intermediary business in Cyprus and replaced Hans Wolff who moved to a new role at Barclays’ headquarters. Savvas joined Barclays’ Cyprus branch in 2010. 

Bedell Cristin, the Jersey-headquartered law firm, appointed Nancy Chien as a partner within its international private client team. Based in Jersey, Chien joined Bedell in 2012 from Ashurst in London and has been involved in the firm's expansion into Asian markets. She is qualified as an advocate in Jersey, a solicitor in England and Wales, a barrister in New Zealand and most recently a solicitor in the British Virgin Islands.

Neuberger Berman appointed Javier Nunez de Villavicencio to lead its client relationship management and business development activities in Spain and Portugal. He is based in Madrid and reports to Dik van Lomwel, Head of EMEA and LatAm at Neuberger Berman. He has over 30 years’ experience including more than a decade spent at BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Madrid, where he was Head of Spain and Portugal. Previously Javier was at JP Morgan as Head of Equity Sales in Madrid and subsequently Head of International Equity Sales in New York.

Brunswick Real Estate, an advisor, lender and investor in the Nordic region, appointed former Goldman Sachs partner Martin Wiwen-Nilsson to its group management committee. Wiwen-Nilsson had been at Goldman Sachs where his most recent role was as partner in charge of sales and structuring for Asia Pacific and EMEA in the global commodity business. 

BNP Paribas Investment Partners appointed Nader Purschaker as head of institutional sales for Germany, based in Frankfurt. He replaces Tobias Bockholt. Purschaker, who took up his role at the start of September, has 20 years’ experience in the asset management sector, most recently working at Metzler Asset Management, one of the oldest financial institutions in the world (founded in 1674). Joining Metzler in 1997, Purschaker was a member of the executive management team and investment policy committee for Metzler/Payden, that firm’s US-based joint venture with Payden & Rygel. 

Stanhope Capital, the investment office, appointed Margaret Ann Rondel as compliance director at its subsidiary company Stanhope Capital (Jersey). Previously, Rondel was head of compliance at Equity Trust (Jersey) (TMF Group); prior to this, she held various compliance roles in the industry and with the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

Hermes Investment Management hired Angelo Natale as business development director for Italy. In the new London-based role, Natale is responsible for building the firm's client franchise in the Italian market. He oversees regional development and asset raising targets, reporting to Hermes' head of European business development, Paul Voûte. He joins following the recent registration of Hermes’ UCITS fund range in Italy. Natale was previously senior director of business development at Duemme SGR, the asset management arm of Gruppo Banca Esperia.

Societe Generale Private Banking appointed Jeanne Duvoux as head of its activities in Luxembourg and deputy head of Societe Generale Bank & Trust. Duvoux replaced Olivier Lecler, whose new functions within Societe Generale group were to be announced in due course. Duvoux, who becomes a member of SGPB’s extended executive committee, is responsible for continuing to develop the private bank’s wealth management activities in Luxembourg.

AXA Investment Managers appointed Laurent Clavel as senior international economist in Paris. Clavel joined from the French National Statistical Institute (INSEE) where he was head of the forecasting unit and held responsibility for INSEE’s quarterly economic outlook. Clavel is based in Paris.

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North America

US-based Berkshire Bank made five senior appointments to its wealth management team. Richard Bleser, who has served as senior vice president portfolio manager since joining the bank in 2010, was appointed as senior vice president and chief investment officer. Jason Edgar, who joined Berkshire as senior portfolio manager last year from Enterprise Investment Advisor, became senior vice president, wealth portfolio manager and regional leader for New England. Mary Ellen Cologero was appointed as senior vice president, wealth portfolio manager and regional leader for New York. With over 25 years' investment experience, she joined the team as a senior portfolio manager from Key Bank where she served as senior vice president and senior portfolio manager. She will work alongside Bleser and Edgar on the bank's investment portfolio.

Berkshire's wealth advisor and senior fiduciary officer, Janice Ward, who joined the bank in 2012 from Greenfield Savings Bank, assumed the additional role of first vice president. She works primarily with trust and estate clients, oversees fiduciary activities, and focuses on financial planning. Lastly, Elizabeth Gore, who has spent over 20 years in Berkshire's trust business, was appointed to first vice president of trust operations and compliance.

SS&C Technologies, the Connecticut-headquartered fintech firm, appointed a leadership team to its recently-acquired Advent Software business unit. SS&C appointed Pete Hess to head up the business as senior vice president and general manager. Hess was previously Advent's president and chief executive. Advent's Advisory Market Group will be responsible for serving clients and growing the business within the wealth management and investment advisor market. It will be led by senior vice president and managing director, Dave Welling, who previously served as the general manager of Advent's Black Diamond business group. He will report to Hess. Meanwhile, Advent's Asset Management and Alternatives Market Group, led by Hess, will focus on providing solutions for the traditional and alternative asset management markets.

Philadelphia-headquartered Glenmede appointed Brian Green as director of its family wealth practice. Green joined Glenmede last year as a senior relationship manager within portfolio management. Before this, he held a number of senior-level advisory roles at BNY Mellon and JP Morgan Chase & Co. In his new role, Green will be based in the firm's Philadelphia office, reporting to Susan Mucciarone, Glenmede's director of wealth advisory.

US Bank appointed Dawn Ripkey as a wealth management advisor at its HNW Private Client Reserve arm in Milwaukee. Ripkey will connect clients with investment management, private banking, trust, estate and wealth planning professionals and services available in the group. Ripkey has more than 25 years of banking and financial services industry experience. Prior to this position, she was a wealth advisor with BMO Harris Private Bank in Milwaukee.

Virginia-based Signature Family Wealth Advisors appointed David Jallits as chief investment officer. Jallits has 25 years of experience in leadership roles across the investment research and portfolio management sectors. He previously worked at Cambridge Associates, Citigroup, Putnam and various hedge funds. Taking over from Anne Shumadine, who was the firm's chairman and chief investment office since founding, Jallits is responsible for leading the firm's investment strategy and research team.

HighTower hired Melissa Duffy and Paige Todorich within its Portland, ME-based Simmons Wilkes Investment Advisors team, adding $150 million in client assets and boosting the team's total corporate, family and individual assets to around $650 million. Duffy, who joined the team as managing director and partner, was previously founder and managing partner at Duffy Anderson Investment Management. Before this, she was vice president and investment advisor at Wachovia Securities. Todorich joined as a financial advisor after a decade at Wells Fargo, where she most recently served as financial advisor. She will work with families and individuals to build and look after investment portfolios, wealth transfer strategies and retirement plans.

The US-based business and regulatory consultancy firm, MarketCounsel, appointed David Mrazik as a managing director and managing partner of Hamburger Law Firm, an affiliated entity. Most recently, Mrazik was the general counsel and a managing director of Focus Financial Partners, where he was responsible for overseeing and advising on the internal and external legal affairs of the company and its affiliates. 

Artivest, a technology-driven investment platform in the US designed to give investors access to private equity and hedge funds, appointed Tom Gatto, a 28-year financial services veteran, as head of business development. Prior to Artivest, Gatto headed advisor relations for Gotham Asset Management and helped lead sales for exchange traded fund issuer Reality Shares. Gatto has also held senior positions at investment firms such as Oppenheimer Capital, PIMCO, BlackRock, Merrill Lynch & Company and Prudential.

UBS recruited The Empire Group from Morgan Stanley in Melville, NY. The team is comprised of David Sobocinski, Julian Frank, Marc Wong and Mark Remigio, and specializes in high net worth planning and portfolio management. A group of former Wells Fargo Advisors launched an independent advisory firm with $250 million in clients assets through Dynasty Financial Partners. Managing partners of SevenBridge Financial Group, Charles Eberly and Lawrence – who worked at Wells Fargo for 16 years – were joined by Michael McConahy, an advisor, consultant and planner, and Patricia Jakeway, director of client resources. 

SevenBridge Financial Group took its name from the seven bridges in the heart of Harrisburg, PA. The firm works with high net worth families, business owners, land owners of oil and gas rights, professional firms, charitable institutions and endowments. Rob Parker was named as a senior portfolio manager at US Bank's Private Client Reserve in Salt Lake City, UT. Parker was previously a portfolio manager in the Colorado district at Key Private Bank in Denver, CO. He started his career in the financial industry in 1997.

Continuing its expansion in the northeast, Raymond James added a team of four financial advisors and two support staff to a new Worcester, MA, branch of Raymond James & Associates, the firm’s traditional employee broker-dealer. The team, called Elm Wealth Management, includes senior vice president of investments and managing director Stephen Erickson; senior vice president of investments and managing director Michael Martin; vice president of investments Scott Louder; associate vice president of investments Christopher Lussier; and registered practice coordinators Diana Correa and Nancy Jones.

John Houlihan, former regional manager at Barclays Wealth & Investment Management in Atlanta, GA, joined UBS in Jericho, Long Island. Houlihan will report to Todd Locicero, regional director for the Metro region, and also cover UBS offices in Garden City, Melville, Southampton and Port Jefferson. He joined Barclays in 2012 after 20 years at Morgan Stanley. Tim Woodall and Dustin Raring, two senior portfolio managers from UBS, joined First Republic in Newport Beach, CA, as managing directors and portfolio managers. Woodall has 17 years of investment management experience and before UBS worked at Merrill Lynch.  Raring has 19 years of investment management experience and before UBS, where he worked with UHNW families, he spent ten years at Oppenheimer.

RBC Wealth Management promoted Austin, TX, branch director Glen Hatch to director of the firm’s Phoenix, AZ, complex. Tim Marwill took over Hatch in the Lone Star State. After 22 years with the US Navy, Hatch joined the financial services industry in 1998. He joined RBC Wealth Management in 2013 as Austin branch director and has over 16 years of financial industry experience overall. Hatch will oversee around 58 financial advisors and 107 total employees serving clients in six offices: Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sun City, Tucson in AZ; Albuquerque, NM; and Las Vegas, NV. Marwill joined RBC Wealth Management’s Austin branch in 2014 from Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor. He is also part of the Marwill Wittek Group, along with financial advisor Eric Wittek.

BlackRock appointed Salim Ramji to lead its US wealth advisory business, succeeding Frank Porcelli. Porcelli, who asked to step back after 11 years in the role, became the unit’s chairman to focus on developing offerings such as FutureAdvisor - the California-based digital wealth management firm BlackRock agreed to buy last month. Meanwhile, Ramji was replaced as global head of corporate strategy by Geraldine Buckingham.

Separately, in the previous week BlackRock sadly announced that its co-president, Charles Hallac, has passed away after battling a terminal illness for nearly four years. HighTower made three executive promotions: Chris Curtis to chief financial officer, Michael Parker to chief development officer and Larry Koehler to chief administrative officer and vice chairman. Curtis joined HighTower in March from Envestnet as an executive vice president within finance and accounting. He now serves as CFO, reporting to Elliot Weissbluth, founder and chief executive of HighTower.

Parker, HighTower's first chief development officer, reports to Weissbluth. Parker will continue to lead HighTower's activities around the recruitment and growth of advisor teams. He also took on responsibilities for marketing, public relations and brand-building. Koehler, HighTower's previous CFO and founding executive since the company's inception, assumed the newly-created role of CAO and vice chairman. He will continue to be responsible for HighTower's legal, compliance, human resources, facilities and M&A activities.

BNY Mellon appointed Kirsten Sandberg as a senior wealth manager in York, PA, to serve clients throughout the region and in Baltimore, MD. Sandberg joined from US Trust, where she was a senior vice president and private client advisor leading a team of wealth management specialists in Baltimore. She has also worked at Wilmington Trust. In her new role, she reports to senior BNY Mellon director, David Sivel.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management recruited Richard Ward and Matthew Sullivan to lead its investment solutions business for the West Coast private bank. Based in Los Angeles, Ward is a director and Sullivan is an assistant vice president, both reporting directly to Todd Stevens, head of the investment solutions group in the Americas, and regionally to Lee Hutter, head of wealth management for the West Coast.

Ward spent the past five years at JP Morgan Private Bank as an executive director and global investment specialist in Los Angeles. Before that, he was a SVP and investment counselor at Citigroup. Sullivan also joined from JP Morgan Private Bank, where he was an associate.

Diversified Trust added two to its board of directors and named its new chair. James Lientz, a partner at Safe Harbor Consulting, was appointed as a board director and chair while Sue Cole, founder and managing partner at SAGE Leadership & Strategy, was added as a board director. Lientz succeeded Hal Daughdrill as chair of the board. Daughdrill held this role for 18 years and took on the title of founder and managing director, based still in Atlanta, GA.

Lientz and Cole joined the existing board consisting of Larry Bryan (founder and director), G Thomas Curtis (managing director, Nashville), J Hal Daughdrill (founder and managing director, Atlanta), Samuel Graham (chief executive and director), Wallace Johnson (managing director, Greensboro), Ashley Moore Remmers (director),  and William Spitz (founder and director).

John Pettenati – formerly of Fiduciary Trust Company International – joined Rockefeller & Co as a managing director to head up a new business development effort at the firm. Based in New York City, Pettenati is tasked with extending the firm's reach in the New York metropolitan area and beyond. He spent the last 11 years as a managing director and business development officer at Fiduciary Trust. Before that, he worked at Bank of New York and Chemical Bank.

TIGER 21, the peer network for wealthy entrepreneurs, appointed Robert Lorenzo as a New York group chair. It is unclear if Lorenzo replaces anyone in this role. Lorenzo has 20 years of experience in finance, including investment sales, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. He has held senior roles at The Chase Manhattan Bank, Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs and UBS, and is a founding partner of Eden Roc Capital, a middle-market private equity firm. He began his career as a CPA at Ernst & Young before embarking on his investment banking career at the family offices of William E Simon, the former US Treasury Secretary.

Daniel Daviau was appointed as president and chief executive of Canaccord Genuity Group, effective October 1, 2015. Daviau took over from David Kassie, who became chairman and CEO in April of this year after the death of past president and CEO, Paul Reynolds. Based in Toronto, Daviau joined Canaccord Genuity's board of directors and continue as executive chairman.

Meanwhile, Alexis de Rosnay took on the additional roles of senior executive vice president of Canaccord Genuity Group and global head of investment banking. de Rosnay will remain in London and continue to serve as CEO of Canaccord Genuity (UK and Europe), which includes overall responsibility for Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management operations in the region.

Daviau has been CEO of Canaccord Genuity's North American capital markets business since February 2015. Between 2012 and 2015, he was president of the firm's US capital markets business, and from 2010 to 2012 was head of investment banking for Canaccord Genuity. Before the Canaccord/Genuity merger in 2010, Daviau was a principal and founder of Genuity Capital Markets, where he held senior roles since 2005.

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Online financial advisor Personal Capital appointed fintech veteran Mark Goines as chief marketing officer. Goines most recently served as Personal Capital's chief strategy officer. He has spent the majority of his career as an angel investor and advisor to companies including CreditInterlink, Mint and Better Finance. In his new role, Goines will be responsible for leading the company's strategy and growth.

Berkshire Bank, which provides services including wealth management, appointed Richard Marotta as president and Sean Gray as chief operating officer. Marotta, who joined the bank in 2010 from KeyBank, served as executive vice president, chief risk and administrative officer since 2013. As president, Marotta will be responsible for all aspects of administration, risk, and infrastructure, including people and systems, compliance and credit.

Gray, who has worked at Berkshire for nine years, has been EVP of retail banking since 2010. As COO, he will be responsible for the operating teams of the bank, including wealth management, retail, commercial, small business, home lending and insurance. In other senior movements, the bank announced the promotions of executives George Bacigalupo, Josephine Iannelli, and Linda Johnston to senior executive vice president.

UBS Private Wealth Management in the US appointed a new team from Merrill Lynch’s private banking and investment group, residing in the newly expanded office in Denver, CO. The joiners were Melissa Corrado-Harrison, Greg Richardson and Ronald Kemp. The team has $1.322 billion in assets under management between them. Corrado-Harrison, managing director, has worked with ultra high net worth clients since 1992, starting her career at the Family High Net Worth Planning division at Merrill Lynch. In 2001, she became a private wealth advisor in the PBIG team at Merrill Lynch.

Within the team, Corrado-Harrison directs the team’s portfolio management activities, liquidity-event and IPO planning strategies, and helps clients focus on estate planning issues.

Richardson began his career in 1992 at Northwest Bank (now Wells Fargo), where he built, implemented, and managed fixed income portfolios for affluent families and large institutions within the private client group. In 2000, he joined Merrill Lynch, where he has continued his focus in serving UHNW clients. He is the primary fixed income strategist for the team, directing the portfolio construction and management of all client bond portfolios.

Kemp advises HNW clients in “total portfolio guidance,” which includes portfolio and risk management, concentrated stock/option management, alternative investments, and ongoing asset allocation strategies. Kemp began his career in the financial industry in 1986.

Advisors Asset Management, a US broker-dealer and investment advisor firm, hired Robert Sowinski and Nicholas Scarpello as managing director for structured products and vice president of agency trading, respectively. Based in Manhattan, Sowinski reports to John Radtke, executive VP of capital markets and capital market sales. Previously, Sowinski served as MD at Jefferies, where he headed third party structured products distribution in North America. Earlier in his career he served as a director at Citigroup ICG, holding various structured products leadership positions within Citi.

Scarpello joined AAM in the Boca Raton, FL, office as VP of agency trading. He has extensive experience marketing and selling agency products. Prior to joining AAM, Scarpello was a vice president of institutional sales at Amherst Pierpont Securities.
Boston-headquartered Acadian Asset Management hired Kurt Livermore as a portfolio manager within its equities team. Livermore joined the Boston office from GlobeFlex Capital, where he was partner and portfolio manager for US and global equity strategies. Before this, he worked at Matikos Capital/Front Point Partners as partner and portfolio manager for its US equity market neutral strategy.

 

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co appointed William Tyree as managing partner. Tyree, who joined BBH 30 years ago and was named partner in 2001, has served as head of the firm's investor services business for the last eight years. He chairs the firm’s investor services oversight committee, and is a member of both the BBH executive and finance committees. He took on the new role at the beginning of 2016, replacing current managing partner Douglas Donahue, who BBH said will soon reach the customary age at which its partners relinquish managerial responsibility (65). Donahue joined BBH back in and will remain one of the firm's general partners.

San Francisco-headquartered Bank of the West hired from BNP Paribas for the role of senior executive vice president and head of the wealth management group. Pierre Ramadier is currently head of wealth management for international retail markets at BNP Paribas. Before this, he served as co-head of BNL-BNP Paribas Private Banking in Rome. He was to take on the new role in January next year and join the Bank of the West executive management committee, reporting to chairman and chief executive, Michael Shepherd.

FallLine Securities, the US wealth management firm which recently launched a platform advisors serving the ultra high net worth clients, added two new executives to its team. Paul Bigler and Shawn McCormick joined as chief operating officer and head of investments and capital markets, respectively. 

Bigler, a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, worked most recently as a senior global advisor to The FairWay Group, a start–up technology venture, where he was responsible for strategic planning, finance and budgeting, HR, compliance and risk-related functions. Previously, he was at UBS Securities, where he served as a managing director in the COO office of the investment bank.

He was also the COO and chief financial officer of CRT Capital Holdings a Stamford, CT-based broker/dealer and asset management firm. Earlier in his career, he worked for Deutsche Bank as managing director and COO of DB Advisors, global head of equity market risk and as regional treasurer for the UK and South Africa based in London.

McCormick joined FallLine from Snowden Lane Partners, an independent wealth advisory firm, where he was vice president and director of investment solutions, responsible for the development and implementation of the investment solutions platform, including managed account programs, third party research, private banking solutions and insurance. He worked previously at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as a senior financial analyst covering ultra high net worth clients, and at T Rowe Price Group, where he was a retirement specialist.

Morgan Stanley made two senior promotions: global head of equities Ted Pick became global head of sales and trading, while co-head of global capital markets Dan Simkowitz now oversees investment management. Pick joined Morgan Stanley in 1990 and held senior posts within global capital markets before starting to run global equities - which he has done for the past six years. Mike Heaney and Rob Rooney will report to Pick going forward.

Meanwhile, Simkowitz is responsible for traditional asset management, alternative investments and merchant banking. He also joined Morgan Stanley in 1990 and has spent his time in capital markets and M&A. Simkowitz will report to chairman and chief executive James Gorman, and Pick will report to Colm Kelleher, president of investment banking and trading. In a separate but related memo, Morgan Stanley said Mo Assomull became the firm’s sole head of global capital markets. Lee Miller was promoted to regional director of Glenmede's New York office. Miller joined Glenmede in 2009 as a senior relationship manager and founding member of the New York branch.

Glenmede also hired Lea Emery as a business development director in New York, reporting to Miller.  Emery was most recently a senior vice president and deputy international commercial director at Christie’s, the global auction house. Before that, she was managing director of the charitable services group within US Bank’s private client group.

Andersen Tax made a raft of promotions, two of which were within its private client services department. Private client experts Kellie Neuhaus and Tim Wylie joined a team of nine Boston, MA-based managing directors, and 17 South California-based managing directors, respectively. Wylie has over 15 years of experience advising high net worth individuals and their related businesses, trusts, foundations and other entities. He provides global income, estate and gift tax planning and compliance, and advice on charitable giving strategies.

Financial Gravity Holdings named Kevin Schillo as its new director of wealth management – a role in which he will also oversee regulatory and statutory compliance matters. Schillo began his career in the financial industry in 2004 as a broker at UBS. In 2007, he joined Rogers Capital Management in Fort Worth, TX, as a registered investment advisor representative, specializing in qualified retirement plan design, personal wealth management advice and financial planning. Then in 2012, he became director of operations and chief compliance officer at Whitley Penn Financial.

Tim Hodge, former managing director and head of global private wealth management at Goldman Sachs, joined LPL Financial as executive vice president of service. Based in San Diego, CA, Hodge oversees LPL's service organization and help support independent financial advisors, banks, credit unions, RIA firms and clearing clients. He will report to Tom Gooley, managing director of service, trading and operations. Hodge held a range of brokerage operation and platform management leadership roles during his 20-year tenure at Goldman’s. 

Seven former Merrill Lynch private banking advisors joined forces to launch an independent wealth management firm called Corient Capital Partners. Chris Copps, Gordon Hassenplug, Darren Henderson, Michael Phelps, Alex Stimpson, Jon Tenney and Greg Walters are all based in Newport Beach, CA. Corient advises ultra high net worth individuals and families, non-profit organizations and corporations across the US. Joining the seven founding partners were Heather Hargrove, Tami Hay, Nicole McMann, Cole Turner and Austin Allen – all from Merrill Lynch.

InvestCloud hired John Stuart as chief marketing officer and executive vice president of hybrid solutions. Stuart was previously director of operations at City National Rochdale, the investment management division of City National Bank, where he oversaw the firm's West Coast footprint and technology initiatives. Before that, he was CIO at Beverly Hills Wealth Management.

Perspecta Trust hired Stephen Tall as chief operating officer – a new role at the firm. Tall oversees all operational aspects of the firm, focusing on client support, technology, administration and operational efficiency. He joined from Acadia Trust, where he was president and chief executive, and before worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International as chief administrative officer, chief technology officer and chief compliance officer.

Fiduciary Trust Company of New England, a wealth advisor and investment management firm for high net worth families and charitable organizations, recruited Walter Abbott as vice president. Abbott joined the firm's Manchester, NH, office and will report to Michael Costa, chief executive. He previously worked at a Boston-based boutique investment advisor where he was a senior director and oversaw asset allocation strategies for ultra high net worth clients and their families. 

SimCorp, the global provider of investment management software and services, hired Robert Overlock to head up its North American ASP [application service provider] operations. Overlock spent the last 13 years working at Misys Banking Systems where he led the go-to-market process for managed hosting and ASP, from inception through to product launch. He has over 20 years' experience in the technology industry, with expertise in delivering software and services to the financial services industry.

As senior manager of North American ASP operations, Overlock is based in New York.  Tom Leslie joined WealthVest as regional director in the eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and west Virginia territories. Leslie began his career at Prudential Securities in 1992 and then became a personal investment consultant at Mellon InvestNet, a broker subsidiary of Mellon Bank. He continued working with Mellon Bank in its subsidiary of Dreyfus Investment Services as a financial advisor. In that role, he coached financial relationship managers and fixed annuity specialists.

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Asia-Pacific
A former top-ranking Credit Suisse manager in Asia moved to take up the reins of another Swiss bank. Switzerland’s Falcon Private Bank appointed Philipp Korach as the new head of international private banking, reporting to Erich Pfister, global head of private banking. Korach oversees business areas in Western Europe, the Middle East & Asia, Eastern Europe and Swiss domestic, including the front units of the bank’s external asset managers’ business. Korach took over from Werner Schuppisser, who took another senior role, heading the newly-created unit called senior advisors.

BNP Paribas Wealth Management hired Sanjay Shah from JP Morgan Private Bank as team head and senior banker for the Hong Kong-based non-resident Indian team. She reports to Masroor Batin, who is head of NRI clients. As part of his role, Shah is responsible for further growing BNP Paribas’ NRI business in Hong Kong and leads a team of relationship managers specifically serving this client segment.

BNP Paribas also hired UBS director Jonathan Ng as head of Indonesia. Ng previously held responsibility for the Swiss bank's ultra-high net worth clients in Indonesia. In the newly-created role at BNP Paribas, he is based in Singapore. He joined with Sharon Yee, also from UBS, who has been appointed team leader, also based in Singapore.

Macquarie said Kevin McCann will retire as chairman and a voting director of both companies effective 31 March 2016; he will be succeeded by independent director Peter Warne. He was appointed an independent voting director in the summer of 2007.

Credit Suisse Private Banking appointed Dominique Boer as managing director and market leader for the Singapore market, reporting to Ms Young Jin Yee, market group head for Singapore. Boer joined from Standard Chartered Private Bank, where she was managing director covering both the Singapore and Greater China markets for the last six years. Prior to her role at Standard Chartered, Boer was head of business development and strategic implementation (SEA Private Bank) where she managed strategic implementation for business development programmes. Before this, Boer was regional centre head and head of priority banking Singapore, responsible for management of the bank’s priority banking business, branches and treasury specialists.

Alison Lim remained market leader and deputy market group head for Singapore while Adrian Teo was promoted to market leader for Singapore in August. He was previously team leader for the Singapore market. Both report to Young.

Credit Suisse hired John Woods from Citi as chief investment officer for Asia-Pacific within its private banking and wealth management business. Woods joined from Citi Investment Management where he was head of fixed income, Asia-Pacific. Before this, he served as chief investment strategist for Asia-Pacific at Citi Private Bank. Within his 25 years of industry experience, he has also held senior roles with HSBC in the UK and Hong Kong, including global head of credit research and strategy. He also sits on the bank’s global investment committee and reports to Nannette Hechler-Fayd’herbe, global head of investment strategy and research.

Julius Baer hired Citi Private Bank's Steven Lawrence as team head and senior relationship manager for the Philippine market. Lawrence joined from his position as senior private banker within Citi Private Bank's mega wealth team in Singapore. Before this, he served as the bank's region head for the Philippines, Thailand and Australia between 2005 and 2011. 

Withers, the law firm, appointed Lynette Ramoutar as a special counsel. She is based in its Hong Kong office, later transferring to the British Virgin Islands office. Ramoutar has experience of working in financial regulation roles across the Caribbean, most recently as deputy director for six years (and acting director) of the BVI Financial Services Commission's legal and enforcement division.

RBC Wealth Management hired Anita Wong from Coutts as an executive director to focus on the Hong Kong market. Wong joined from Coutts & Co in Hong Kong, where she was an executive director and private banker. She has almost 25 years' experience in the financial industry. In her new Hong Kong-based role, she joined the North Asia relationship management team.

Equities research firm theScreener expanded in Asia-Pacific by hiring former ABN AMRO equity strategist Daphne Roth, who was appointed executive director. Roth was with ABN AMRO for more than 15 years; among other roles, she is a regular commentator on international media, such as CNBC and Bloomberg. Her career with ABN AMRO Private Banking began in Switzerland when she joined the bank as an investment advisor. In 2006 she returned to Singapore and became the head of equity research for Asia. 

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors re-appointed Andrew Lee as chairman of its Hong Kong board for a term lasting until 31 August 2016. Lee is managing director of Sunbase International Properties Management.

State Street, the US-headquartered financial services group, made two senior appointments for Asia. Mark England was appointed to the role of senior vice president and head of asset manager sector sales for Asia, based in Hong Kong. In his new role, England is responsible for further developing and executing State Street’s sales strategy for the asset management sector in the region. England joined State Street from Citibank, where he was most recently head of asset manager sales for the investor services group. He has more than 17 years of industry experience, having held positions in sales, implementation and operations functions in the Americas, Asia and Europe.

Colin Zhong was named as head of global markets sales and trading and research for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining State Street, Zhong held senior roles at UBS and Deutsche, specialising in currency and fixed income rates products in locations including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and New York.

Convoy Financial Holdings, the independent financial advisor in Hong Kong, appointed Ng Wing Fai as executive director and group president, a newly-created role. Ng’s directorship is for a three-year term. Ng is the managing partner and founding partner of Primus Pacific Partners, overseeing investments in New China Life Insurance Co, the Chinese life insurance company, EON Bank, the Malaysia bank, and a number of significant assets around the world. Previously, Ng was MD of Fubon Financial Holding and was in charge of Fubon Financial’s overall strategy, capital markets, merger and acquisition activities and major change programmes. Prior to that, Ng served at a number of financial institutions, including the financial institutions investment banking divisions at Salomon Smith Barney and Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Credit Suisse hired Balakrishnan Kunnambath from DBS to fill the role of head of non-resident Indians (NRIs), South Asia. Kunnambath joined from his position as managing director within DBS Private Bank in Singapore. Before this, he was managing director at Societe Generale Private Banking, where he focused on the NRI market.

Global consulting firm Mercer announced a number of senior appointments in Singapore and Hong Kong. Billy Wong, managing director and business leader in Hong Kong, and Francis Goh, country leader in Singapore, continued to drive Mercer’s business and sales growth in their respective markets. Wong and Goh report to Lisa Sun, managing director and partner, Asia market for Mercer, and are responsible for the company’s Hong Kong and Singapore operations respectively. Mercer also appointed Jon Robinson as ASEAN executive rewards leader and Kwong Hui Hen as senior associate, executive rewards, both based in Singapore. Meanwhile, Robert Li was named as talent consulting business leader, based in Hong Kong.

Mirae Asset Global Investments (USA), part of one of Asia’s largest financial groups, hired four analysts to boost its global equity team in the US. The analysts are based in New York and report to Jose Gerardo Morales, chief investment officer. 

The new arrivals were Tatiana Feldman, SungWon Song, Malcom Dorson and Michael Dolacky.  

Feldman is a senior investment analyst focusing on global emerging markets ex-Asia. Prior to joining Mirae Asset USA, Feldman served as an investment analyst with INCA Investments, an equity research analyst at Brasil Plural and a senior analyst at Morgan Stanley covering Latin America. 

Dr Song is an investment analyst focusing on the global healthcare sector. Previously, Dr Song worked at Nationwide Children's Hospital, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow, and The Ohio State University, where he worked as a graduate research associate. Dr Song holds a PhD in Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology from The Ohio State University.

Dorson is an investment analyst focusing on global emerging markets ex-Asia. Previously, Dorson worked as an investment analyst at Ashmore Group covering Latin America and at Citigroup as an assistant vice president focusing on asset management for ultra-high net worth clients.

Dolacky is an investment analyst focusing on the global healthcare sector. Dolacky previously was an investment analyst with Senzar Asset Management and a fixed income analyst at Nomura Securities.

The Hong Kong Investment Funds Association appointed an executive committee for the year 2015-2016, and named Invesco Hong Kong’s Terry Pan and Principal Global Investors (Asia)’s Arthur Bacci as chairman and vice chairman, respectively.

Pan joined Invesco in February 2015 as CEO, Greater China, Singapore and Korea, responsible for driving the overall growth and coverage of Invesco’s Greater China business, spanning across Hong Kong, China (offshore business), Singapore and Taiwan, as well as the other emerging markets in Asia. Pan has more than 20 years of industry experience in asset management and financial services; he joined Invesco from JP Morgan Asset Management, where he was managing director, head of the Hong Kong and China QDII funds business.

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One of the most senior figures at Julius Baer’s Asia business, Nigel Sze, head of Hong Kong and China, is leaving, media reports – not commented upon by the bank – said. Sze joined the firm about a year ago and has been reporting into Wilson So, head of Greater China at Julius Baer. He was previously deputy chief executive for Asia and head of private banking in Hong Kong at EFG, the Swiss firm.

A senior figure at Citi Private Bank joined Deutsche Bank in the firm’s Southeast Asia team: Savita Bedi was appointed as managing director in the Southeast Asia team, covering wealth management in that sub-region, and is based in Singapore. Bedi worked at Citi Private Bank for 13 years and six months.

Professional services firm Towers Watson appointed Richard Collis as managing director, regional leader for risk consulting and software in the Asia-Pacific region. Collis, who has 27 years of experience in the industry, is based in Hong Kong and reports to Michael Murphy, managing director and global leader, risk consulting and software. Since starting his career in Australia, he has held senior Asia-Pacific-focused positions with global financial institutions. He relocated to Hong Kong from Sydney in 2007. 

Standard Chartered named Judy Hsu as its chief executive for Singapore, taking the helm from Neeraj Swaroop. Swaroop left to pursue other opportunities. He resigned after turning down the offer of a job overseeing the business in India, a report said. Hsu, who joined Standard Chartered in 2009 from Citigroup, remains in charge of wealth management over a transitional period. Swaroop joined Standard Chartered in 2005; he was CEO for India and South Asia until 2012. His successor in the role, Sunil Kaushal, was appointed in July as the regional CEO for Africa and the Middle East and made a member of the new management team. 

M&G Investments, part of UK-listed Prudential Group, appointed Ominder Dhillon as its global head of institutional distribution. His business role encompasses a variety of regions, including Asia. Ominder is responsible for M&G’s institutional distribution across all asset classes. He reports to Simon Pilcher, chief executive, fixed income, M&G Investments. Previously, Ominder worked at Impax Asset Management, where he was managing director, global business development and client service. He previously held senior business development positions at Fidelity International and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. 

Falcon Private Bank appointed Febby Avianto to the newly created, Singapore-based role of head of private banking for Asia. He joined from RBC Wealth Management. At RBC, Avianto held the role of market head for Southeast Asia; his 20-year career in the sector has encompassed roles at Citi Private Banking, UBS and Bank Sarasin.

Friends Provident International, part of the Aviva group of financial firms, appointed Adrian Emery as chief executive, taking over from Khor Hock Seng who leaves in October to become group CEO of Great Eastern after only two months in the CEO role, although he had been with the firm for more than two years in total. Chris Wei, executive chairman, Aviva Asia and FPI and global chairman, Aviva Digital, continued to oversee the region and lead the growth strategy of both Aviva Asia and FPI. Emery joined Aviva in January 2015 as director of business development for Global Life.  James Tan, managing director for Hong Kong; Marcus Gent, managing director Middle East and rest of world; Chris Gill, general manager, Southeast Asia; and Caroline Cornish, general manager, Isle of Man, will continue in their roles at FPI.

Nomura appointed Lee Chee Pin as head of financial products and solutions for wealth management in the Asia ex-Japan region. Lee is based in Singapore and reports to Nobuhiro Sano, head of wealth management, Asia ex-Japan. In this newly created role, Lee is responsible for overseeing all trading and dealing functions across wealth management in the region. Previously, Lee worked at Island Asset Management, a boutique fund management company investing in Asian small-cap companies, where he was chief executive. He started his career as a foreign exchange trader at Chemical Bank before joining Bank of America, where his last role was as head of global foreign exchange for Asia. He has also previously worked at Guoco Management as head of group treasury and Millennium Capital Management as a forex portfolio manager.