The latest senior moves in and around the Asia-Pacific wealth management sector.

Knight Frank
Global real estate advisor, Knight Frank, has promoted Emily Relf, director in its Asia-Pacific capital markets business, to the role of head of global capital strategies. The appointment takes effect immediately.

Based in Singapore, Relf will continue to report to Neil Brookes, who was recently appointed to lead global capital markets for Knight Frank, also based in Singapore.

Relf has been in Singapore since 2015 after joining Knight Frank as a graduate in London in 2011. During her tenure with the firm, Relf has forged strong relationships with institutional investors, private equity funds, and high net worth individuals throughout the region, a strong foundation from which to lead global capital intelligence.

AMP Capital
AMP Capital has appointed three new figures to its Community Infrastructure Fund: Odette Linnett as investment director, Carolyn van Leuven as senior advisor and Mathew Pirotta as associate.

Linnett takes on asset management responsibilities for a number of CommIF assets including Victorian Schools, Darwin Convention Centre and NSW Schools II. Linnett will be based in Sydney.She started her career at the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance and has more than 13 years’ corporate finance experience. She was an investments director at Deloitte Asia-Pacific before joining CommIF.

Van Leuven joins CommIF as senior advisor and will be appointed to two of the fund’s New Zealand boards. She is an experienced senior executive and board director/trustee, a former major commercial law firm partner and has previously been a deputy chief executive for the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Corrections in New Zealand.

Pirotta has also been promoted within AMP Capital to an associate with CommIF. Pirotta has been with AMP Capital for more than six years, most recently in AMP Capital’s Finance Team.