The latest moves and appointments in wealth management in the UK, the rest of Europe, the Middle East and other select locations.

Harneys
Offshore law firm Harneys has elected William Peake as new global managing partner – his appointment is effective from 1 January 2023. Peake is taking over from Ross Munro, who is returning to his previous role as CEO and chair of Harneys Fiduciary.

Peake joined the firm in 2014 as a senior associate in the litigation, insolvency and restructuring group and was promoted to partner in 2017. He has built a litigation practice from the firm’s London and Cayman Islands offices, most notably acting as the lead partner for the official liquidators of a Cayman SPV in relation to the $9.2 billion Saad litigation – the longest running and most high value case ever to come before the Cayman Islands Grand Court. 

AXA Investment Managers
AXA Investment Managers has named two responsible investment experts. 

Clément Bultheel has been appointed as sustainability coordinator, to work on AXA IM’s sustainability policies and coordination topics to support its ESG efforts. He joined from Quantis, where he worked as a sustainable finance consultant.

Based in Paris, Bultheel reports to Clémence Humeau, head of sustainability coordination and governance.

Benjamin Jacot has been appointed ESG quantitative analyst. He is in charge of developing climate metrics and models, to assess physical and transition risk, portfolios alignment to climate scenarios in support of AXA IM’s objective to accelerate the transition to a Net Zero world. He has joined from La Française, where he was a quantitative risk manager and financial engineer. 

Based in Paris, Jacot reports to Yolande Poulou, head of RI solutions, models, and tools in AXA IM’s Quant Lab.