People Moves
Summary Of Wealth Management Executive Moves - November 2012

Here is the roundup of moves in the wealth management industry during November.
International
Northern Trust, the Chicago-headquartered banking group, hired Edwin Parker to boost its alternative fund administration team to work across the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Channel Islands. Parker joined Northern Trust earlier in November from Butterfield Fulcrum, where he was managing director.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management named Sheila Patel as head of its international business, spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, but excluding Japan - a newly created role. Patel was latterly co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and in her Singapore-based expanded role continues to focus on distribution-related activities in EMEA.
Trust Corporation of the Channel Islands strengthened its senior management team with the promotion of Andréa Daley Taylor and Mark Coffell to the post of assistant director. Daley Taylor is responsible for the operational and investment processes for a number of family offices based in Europe and the US. Coffell manages a range of client relationships and has responsibility for much of the internal compliance and staff management function.
Bermuda-headquartered Bank of NT Butterfield & Son appointed John Wright as chairman of the board of directors of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Butterfield Bank (UK). Also, Nigel Buchanan, an existing non-executive director at Butterfield Bank (UK), has been appointed chairman of the audit, risk policy and compliance committee.
Wright has experience in UK and international markets, including assignments in India, Sri Lanka, West Africa, Canada, Hong Kong and the US. He was formerly chief executive of Oman International Bank for seven years, CEO of the Northern and National Irish Banks in Ireland for five years, CEO of the Gulf Bank in Kuwait and finally CEO of Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks prior to retirement. He has served as a non-executive director on the Butterfield Group Board and the UK Board since 2002.
Buchanan served as a senior client partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers until 2001, having joined the firm in 1968 and being named a partner in 1978. He led PwC’s financial services practice across Europe for ten years. He joined the board of Leopold Joseph Holdings PLC in 2001 before its acquisition by Butterfield in 2004.
Bob Doll, who left his post as BlackRock's chief equity strategist in June, joined Chicago-based Nuveen Asset Management as chief equity strategist and senior portfolio manager. Doll was latterly BlackRock's chief equity strategist for fundamental equities. He also served as head of the US large-cap equity team, with primary portfolio management responsibility for those strategies.
Allianz Investments appointed Ilya Mozgovoy as deputy chief executive and head of asset management in Russia, Investment Europe reports. Mozgovoy oversees asset management for private, corporate and institutional clients, as well as mutual funds. He has been at the firm since 2005, latterly as a senior portfolio manager.
UBS Global Asset Management strengthened its UK wholesale team with the addition of Ryan Rajkumar - latterly of BNY Mellon Asset Management - as sales director. Based in London, Rajkumar oversees the group's strategic partners, reporting to head of UK wholesale Steve Hutton. He left his former role at BNY Mellon Asset Management in May, having served as head of investment solutions since June 2010.
Sanlam Global Investment Solutions, part of South Africa’s Sanlam Group, named John Croft as head of the UK and Europe for its Bermuda-based investment firm P2International. Croft was latterly a sales director at Co-operative Asset Management. In his prior career he worked for M&G, Deutsche Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Managers.
United Kingdom Foresight Group, the UK boutique which focuses on environmental, infrastructure and private equity investments, named Nick Morgan as sales director. Morgan is charged with developing Foresight’s links with IFAs, and to up its profile as a provider of tax-efficient investment products related to the renewable energy sector, like solar power production. Morgan joined from Octopus Investments, where he had been fundraising for venture capital trusts, enterprise investment schemes and business property relief products for five years.
BNP Paribas Wealth Management rehired a former employee as its new chief executive for its onshore India business. Samir Bimal joined BNP Paribas Wealth Management India as managing director and CEO of BNP Paribas Investment Services India Private, which is the BNP Paribas Wealth Management entity in India. He is also the global head of India onshore business at the French bank.
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen appointed Sarah Wallis as a senior associate within its 14-strong property team in Guernsey. Wallis joined from Guernsey-based AFR Advocates.
Europe
Butterfield Bank today appointed Alpa Bhakta to the newly created role of head of European lending, having been a year at the firm. In the post, she is responsible for leading the London and Guernsey lending team. Bhakta joined Butterfield Private Bank (London) in October 2011 as head of property finance with over 20 years experience in the banking industry, and was responsible for growing Butterfield Private Bank’s lending business through a focus on high-value residential properties.
Barclays appointed Simon Phillips as head of captive insurance in its wealth and investment management division. Based in Jersey, Phillips works with the current multi-jurisdictional team to widen the captive insurance proposition to reflect changes in the sector as well as developing the firm’s franchise in locations including Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, Bermuda, the Caribbean and onshore US. Phillips has extensive experience in the captive insurance and institutional sectors spanning 23 years in London, Jersey and the Isle of Man as a relationship manager and sector leader.
Russia’s MDM Bank bolstered its private banking division with two senior hires. Sergey Borovikov was appointed as vice president and head of the private bank directorate, while Ineta Done will head the private banking activities of MDM's Stolitsa Territorial Bank. Borovikov was latterly head of the high net worth clients department at Sberbank, developing the "Sberbank One" private banking service during his three-year tenure. Before this he was vice president and head of the VIP client department at Alfa-Bank.
Lombard Odier appointed private banker Stéphane Ulcakar as senior vice president in its Moscow representative office. Ulcakar was latterly a principal at Boston Consulting Group, working there since 2010, having previously worked for the consultancies Bain & Co and Corporate Value Associates for three and nine years respectively.
Bernard Armstrong, who had been head of family offices for Europe at Credit Suisse, left the Zurich-listed bank amid a reorganisation of how the firm operates its ultra high net worth business. Holding the post with the title of managing director since September 2010, Armstrong’s future plans were unclear.
Liechtenstein-based VP Bank Group expanded its executive board at its Vaduz head office at the beginning of 2013, promoting Martin Engler, head of private banking for Liechtenstein, and Günther Kaufmann, head of intermediaries and transaction banking, to the board.
Palamon Capital Partners, the UK-based independent private equity partnership, appointed John David as managing director of investment strategy within its pan-European team. Based in London, the role of the pan-European team is to advance the firm's thematic investment model, which identifies and partners high-growth service businesses across the continent. David joined Palamon from Allstate Investments, where he was latterly global strategist and head of the London office.
Credit Suisse named Paolo Mancini as head of its Italian high net worth business. Based in Milan, Mancini will oversee a team serving clients with €250 million ($199 million) to €300 million in assets. Mancini has been with the Swiss banking giant since 2000, most recently serving as managing director and head of debt capital market for southern Europe.
Italy's Banca Monte Paschi di Siena named Francesco Fanti as head of private banking, amid a wide-reaching shake-up of the bank’s governance structure. Fanti, who latterly oversaw the bank’s operations in central and southern Italy, was charged specifically with consolidating and relaunching MPS’ private banking activities.
Middle East and Africa
Qatar's QInvest appointed its deputy chief executive, Tamim Hamad Al-Kawari, as its new chief executive, following the resignation of former CEO Shahzad Shahbaz. Prior to joining QInvest, Al-Kawari was managing director and country head for Qatar at Goldman Sachs.
Societe Generale Private Banking made four senior appointments in a bid to strengthen the commercial structure it has developed to serve wealthy clients in the Middle East and Africa. Eddy Abramo was appointed global market manager for clients in the Middle East - a role in which he will lead and coordinate the firm's commercial teams in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Geneva, London, Luxembourg and Monaco.
Abramo joined SGPB in Paris as a discretionary portfolio manager in 1997 and was named chief executive of Societe Generale Private Banking Middle East in 2009. He retains this position alongside his new role. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul Rame became global market manager for Africa - a segment with "significant growth potential", the firm said. He retained his existing role as manager of the African desk for Societe Generale Private Banking Switzerland.
Switzerland
Banking software firm the Avaloq Group appointed Martin Frick to the newly-created post of head of business process outsourcing. In this role, Frick is responsible for the development and implementation of Avaloq’s international BPO strategy.
Before joining Avaloq, Frick worked as chief operations officer continental Europe for business processing and procurement firm Xchanging in Frankfurt. Prior to that, he was chief investment officer of Avis Europe in the UK, where he was in charge of the IT and back-office divisions; before that he was CIO of the Winterthur Insurance Group.
The deputy chief executive of EFG International, Lukas Ruflin, decided to take a long-planned sabbatical and will step down from this role, which will not be replaced as part of a move to contain costs. He continued as an advisor and remains on the board of EFG Financial Products.
Mirabaud Asset Management, part of Geneva-based Mirabaud & Cie, appointed Andrew Lake to the role of global high yield manager, as the firm looks to develop its range of funds. Lake reportx to Lionel Aeschlimann, partner and head of asset management at Mirabaud, and will manage global high yield solutions for Mirabaud clients. Lake was latterly at Aviva investors, where he spent two years heading up the high yield business in London. Before that, he was at F&C Asset Management for four years, having begun his high yield career at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 1998.
North America
Prospera
Financial Services, an independent broker-dealer, brought in
two
advisors in Westchester, PA, and Plymouth, MA, adding over $56
million
in assets under management.
Tom Ambrose of Ambrose Wealth Management has over 32 years of
experience and was formerly with Ameriprise. Meanwhile, Hilary
O’Malley -
latterly of Wells Fargo Advisors - joins Plymouth Rock
Financial
Partners and has been advising clients for over 19 years.
Eric Johnson of CNB Bank was promoted to assistant vice president for wealth and asset management.
Johnson joined CNB Bank as a member of the management
training
program in 2004 and afterwards obtained a position within the
bank’s
wealth and asset management services division as a trust
administrator.
In 2010, he was promoted to trust officer.
Merrill Lynch brought in 10 advisors from Morgan Stanley, UBS
and
Wells Fargo, representing some $1.07 billion in assets and $7.7
million
in production.
Joining from UBS in Louisville, KY, the team of Charles
Mercer,
Marguerite Rowland and Dowell Ryan has around $265.3 million in
assets
and $2.4 million in production.
Meanwhile, a host of advisors joined from Morgan Stanley:
•In Mill Valley, CA, Jeffrey Wells represents around $264 million in assets and $1.5 million in production.
•In Greenwich, CT, Keith Ward represents around $136.3 million in assets and $1.58 million in production.
•In Washington, DC, John Forster represents around $110.2 million in assets and $500,000 in production.
•In Red Bank, NJ, Raymond Abbate represents around $102
million in
assets and $408,000 in production, and Bob Reinert and Craig
Reinert
together represent some $92 million in assets and $526,000 in
production.
Lastly, Merrill Lynch hired Terry Schurman from Wells Fargo. He
is
based in Ponte Vedra, FL, and represents around $101.9 million in
assets
and $813,000 in production.
Neuberger Berman, the private investment manager, appointed
Brian
Layton to lead its wealth management operations in Boston. He
replaced
Chris Biotti who left Neuberger Berman earlier in the year for US
Trust.
Layton, who joined as a senior vice president, previously worked
at
Bernstein Global Wealth Management, part of AllianceBernstein, as
a
senior private client wealth advisor.
At Neuberger, he reports to Terry Riordan, Chicago-based regional director of Neuberger Berman Wealth Management.
Sacramento, CA-based River City Bank added a wealth management veteran to its board of directors.
Lon Burford is a founding partner of the wealth management
firm
Genovese Burford & Brothers, which was set up in 1987, and in
which
River City bought a 20 per cent stake in July.
Boston Private Bank & Trust Company named Michael Cohen as
senior
vice president and director of operations, charged with ensuring
that
all operational components are running efficiently across the
bank.
Cohen was latterly vice president of loan operations at Blue
Hills
Bank. Before that, he served as vice president of credit
operations at
Rockland Trust. He previously held similar roles at Citizens Bank
and
State Street Bank.
Raymond James recruited John Dorsey as senior vice president
of
investments and branch manager at its new Huntington, West VA,
office of
Raymond James & Associates, a broker-dealer subsidiary of New
York-listed Raymond James Financial.
Joining Dorsey as senior client service associate in the
Huntington
branch from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is Angela Watson.
Wells Fargo added a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers to
its
board, due to start at the beginning of next year and join the
audit and
examination committee.
Howard Richardson was at PwC for over three decades in a range
of
leadership, audit and business advisory positions. He brings the
number
of directors on Wells Fargo's board to 16.
Toronto-based Sprott Asset Management hired Jason Mayer as a
portfolio manager, focused on the firm's tax-efficient
flow-through
product offerings. Mayer will join Paul Wong in co-managing
Sprott
Resource Class, a tax-advantaged mutual fund that serves as
the
roll-over vehicle for the firm's flow-through offerings. He
joined from
Middlefield Capital Corporation, where he was lead portfolio
manager on a
number of investment funds.
Bob Doll, who left his post as BlackRock's chief equity
strategist in
June, joined Chicago-based Nuveen Asset Management as chief
equity
strategist and senior portfolio manager.
Doll was latterly BlackRock's chief equity strategist for
fundamental
equities. He also served as head of the US large-cap equity team,
with
primary portfolio management responsibility for those strategies.
He now
reports to Nuveen Asset Management's head of equities, David
Chalupnik.
Doll remains at BlackRock in an advisory capacity throughout the remainder of 2012.
Snowden Capital Advisors, a dual listed RIA and broker-dealer, added two teams from Merrill Lynch.
The DiCiaccio and LaMothe-Gonzalez teams manage some $500 million
in
client assets and are founding a West Coast branch office for
Snowden in
Pasadena, CA.
Joining Snowden as partners are: John DiCiaccio, managing
director of
the DiCiaccio team; Leah Thomson Snell, vice president of the
DiCiaccio
team; and Jon LaMothe and Luis Gonzalez, both managing directors
of the
LaMothe-Gonzalez team.
Behringer Harvard, a firm that creates alternative investment
programs for institutional and individual investors, brought in
Brad
Watt as executive vice president – net lease investments.
Watt, who has been in the real estate investment industry for
25
years, will create and distribute a series of 1031 Delaware
Statutory
Trust and other real estate wealth management programs focused on
fixed
income and tax efficiency. The net lease investment platform will
focus
on single-tenant assets leased to investment grade tenants on
long-term
double net and triple net leases.
UBS Global Asset Management appointed Thomas Wels as head of its global real estate business.
Having worked for the firm since 2005, Wels was latterly
chief
operating officer, prior to which he was responsible for
expanding the
company’s global fund services business. In his new role he will
be
mainly based in Zurich, but will spend time in all the major
asset
management offices.
Meanwhile, UBS said farewell to Wels’ predecessor Paul Marcuse who has been head of global real estate since 2007.
The Private Client Reserve, a unit of Minneapolis, MN-based US Bank, appointed three senior vice presidents in Florida.
Gwendolyn Boykin, a senior vice president and senior trust
officer,
joined the office in Palm Beach. She will collaborate with high
net
worth individuals, families and charitable organizations to
provide them
with trust and estate administration services.
Also in Palm Beach, Nicholas Pollard was named senior vice
president
and banking manager. Pollard will provide specialized lending
services
and oversee the day-to-day management of financial activities for
HNW
clients.
Lastly, Jack Randall will serve as a senior vice president and
wealth
management advisor in Naples, where he will develop and
implement
customized investment strategies and plans for HNW individuals
and
families.
Morgan Stanley appointed John Campbell as director of the Greater
New
Jersey region, based in the Short Hills wealth management office.
Campbell will oversee offices throughout the state and in
sections of
Pennsylvania. He previously held the roles of financial
advisor/branch
manager in Melville, NY, and San Francisco, CA, as well as
district
manager in New York City and head of business development in
Purchase,
NY.
BlackRock took on UBS's Lawrence Kemp as a managing director and
head
of its fundamental large-cap growth team, effective December 10.
Kemp was latterly head of US large-cap growth equity at UBS and
at
BlackRock replaces Jeffrey Lindsey, who the firm confirmed is
leaving in
February after 10 years. Lindsey will work with Kemp on
transitioning
the portfolios until his departure.
Based in New York, Kemp will oversee the $4.9 billion
BlackRock
Capital Appreciation Fund, the $73 million BlackRock Focus Growth
Fund
and Fundamental Large Cap Growth portfolios, including
sub-advised and
institutional portfolios, as of January 1. He will report to
Chris
Leavy, who took over the responsibility for BlackRock's
large-cap
portfolios from Robert Doll.
Boyden, the US executive search firm, added Andrew Reese as a
managing director at its New York office. Reese will play a key
role in
recruiting C-level and senior executives within the financial
services
industry, including companies specializing in wealth management,
asset
management and private equity.
Kensington Capital Partners, the Canadian investment firm
that
specializes in alternative assets, appointed Eamonn McConnell and
John
Walker as managing directors.
McConnell will have lead responsibility for the Kensington Hedge Fund, while Walker runs the firm's infrastructure business.
McConnell has worked for numerous international institutions
including Barclays Global Investors, Deutsche Bank and Merrill
Lynch, as
well as at smaller entrepreneurial firms.
UBS Wealth Management Americas reinforced its broker force in
Ohio
with a team of advisors from Bank of America's Merrill Lynch.
Advisor Robert Anning, along with his son John Anning and
Tollie
Chavis, previously served as senior vice presidents. Based in
Cincinnati, they managed over $1 billion in client assets and
last year
produced more than $3 million in annual revenue. According to
regulatory
filings, Robert Anning was at Merrill for over 40 years.
BlackRock appointed Russ Koesterich, global investment strategist
for
its iShares business, to the newly-created position of group
chief
investment strategist.
Reporting to Ken Kroner, global head of multi-asset
strategies,
Koesterich will communicate the firm's investment strategy
and
perspective on the markets and economy to investors and
financial
advisors, while continuing in his iShares role, which he has held
since
2010.
His tenure with BlackRock dates back to 2005, including his
years
with Barclays Global Investors, which BlackRock acquired in 2009.
At
BGI, Koesterich was the global head of investment strategy for
active
equities and a senior portfolio manager within the US market
neutral
group.
JP Morgan named Marianne Lake, currently chief financial officer
of
its consumer and community banking business, as CFO for the
entire US
banking group, effective from early in 2013.
She will succeed Doug Braunstein, who will become vice chairman of the company following Lake's move into the CFO position.
Before Lake took on her current role, she served as global controller of the investment bank from 2007 to 2009.
In his new job, Braunstein “will focus on serving top clients of
the
firm,” JP Morgan said. Prior to taking on the CFO role in June
2010, he
served as head of investment banking Americas from 2008, and,
prior to
that, he held several other senior investment banking
positions,
including head of investment banking coverage and mergers and
acquisitions.
New York-listed First Republic Bank took on Barbara Palmer as
regional managing director at the Portland, OR, office, which
provides
lending, wealth management and trust services to individuals,
businesses, foundations and non-profits.
Before joining First Republic, Palmer was a senior vice president
and
market executive for US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth
Management in Portland. She worked at BofA for 35 years.
InvesTrust, a national trust bank that serves individuals and
institutions, appointed Mark Williams as chief investment
officer.
Williams joined InvesTrust from Bank of Oklahoma, where he
oversaw
accounts with around $2 billion in assets.
Baird strengthened its Portland, ME, wealth management office,
adding
Baron Becker as a vice president and financial advisor along
with
registered client relationship associate Kim Fickett.
Becker was previously a vice president and financial advisor
at
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth
Management) since
1999. He started his career in 1991 as a principal trader at
Murphy
& Durieu and then moved to Paine Webber as a principal trader
and
investment executive.
New York-listed Manning & Napier brought in Robert Zak as an
independent board director and appointed him to serve on the
nominating
and corporate governance, compensation, and audit committees.
Since 1995, Zak has served as president and chief executive
at
Merchants Insurance Group, a privately-held insurance company.
Prior to
entering the insurance industry in 1985, he had a career in
public
accounting.
Los Angeles-headquartered Aspiriant appointed its New
York-based
director of wealth management, Lisa Colletti, as a principal of
the
firm.
Colletti has served as wealth management director in New York
since
joining the firm last year. She has 13 years of industry
experience
including in tax and estate planning.
Wells Fargo Advisors, Wells Fargo’s broker-dealer arm,
appointed
David Kowach as president of its Private Client Group, the
brokerage’s
largest channel. Kowach replaced Jim Hays, who is now the head of
Wealth
Brokerage Services.
Kowach will report to Danny Ludeman, president and chief
executive of
Wells Fargo Advisors. Kowach previously led the firm’s
business
development group.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management promoted Garrett Alton to a
newly-created position overseeing the firm's sales teams in
Pennsylvania
and Washington and leading each region's business development
efforts.
Alton will relocate from Atlanta, GA, to Philadelphia, PA,
reporting
to Mid-Atlantic regional president David Kutch and Central US
regional
president Andy Paterson.
Canada's RBC Wealth Management appointed Ayesha Yasin as an
advisor
in Washington, DC. Yasin joined from Morgan Stanley Wealth
Management,
with $116 million in assets under management and $972,000 in
production.
Goldman Sachs completed its latest round of partner appointments, adding 70 individuals to its exclusive roster.
The following individuals will become partners of the firm as of January 1, 2013:
Vivek Bantwal
Pat Fels
John Mallory
Michael Ronen
Heather Bellini
Pete Finn
Joseph Mauro
Jami Rubin
Brian Bolster
David Fishman
Charles McGarraugh
Yann Samuelides
Jill Borst
Sheara Fredman
Xavier Menguy
Joshua Schiffrin
Michael Brandmeyer
Jacques Gabillon
Amol Naik
David Schwimmer
Jason Brauth
Francesco Garzarelli
Jo Natauri
Gaurav Seth
Stuart Cash
Nick Giovanni
Una Neary
Michael Siegel
Alex Chi
Brad Gross
Gregory Olafson
Michael Smith (Singapore)
Kent Clark
Anthony Gutman
Lisa Opoku
Josh Struzziery
Richard Cormack
Leland Hensch
Gerald Ouderkirk
Damian Sutcliffe
Jack Daly
Russell Horwitz
Francesco Pascuzzi
Michael Swell
Anne Marie Darling
Roy Joseph
Anthony Pasquariello
Ryan Thall
David Dase
John Kim (Seoul)
Huw Pill
Bobby Vedral
Olaf Diaz-Pintado
Marie Louise Kirk
Dmitri Potishko
Simon Watson
Robert Drake-Brockman
Hugh Lawson
Sean Rice
Toby Watson
Alessandro Dusi
Scott Lebovitz
Francois Rigou
Yoshihiko Yano
Edward Emerson
Ericka Leslie
Scott Rofey
Antonio Esteves
Luca Lombardi
Jeroen Rombouts
BMO Private Bank hired Michael Arbet as vice president and
director
of investments, focused on the wealth management needs of
clients
throughout Southwest Wisconsin.
Withers Bergman, the international law firm, appointed Reaz Jafri
and
Theda Fisher to spearhead a new US immigration practice for
wealthy
individuals and families. Jafri and Fisher both join the firm
from
Abrams Fensterman and will be based in the firm’s New York
office.
Atlantic Trust, the private wealth management arm of New
York-listed
Invesco, appointed Luke Davis as a vice president and
relationship
manager in New York.
Prior to joining Atlantic Trust, Davis was a vice president
and
client advisor at Bernstein Global Wealth Management, where he
advised
high net worth families, foundations and family offices.
Glenmede, the privately-held investment and wealth management
firm,
took on Timothy Fisk as a vice president and wealth advisor
in
Philadelphia, PA.
Fisk joined from Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president
and
trust specialist within the wealth structuring group. In that
role, he
was responsible for fiduciary business development efforts across
four
states in the Midwest/Southeast.
In a separate move, Glenmede named Jeffrey Coron director of
institutional and intermediary distribution for Glenmede
Investment
Management. He will report to Sally Wirts, chief administrative
officer
of GIM.
Raymond James took on Karl Rothermund as senior vice president
of
investments in the Scottsdale, AZ, office of Raymond James &
Associates, a broker-dealer subsidiary of New York-listed Raymond
James
Financial.
Rothermund joins Raymond James from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
(now
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management), where he managed $80 million
in
client assets and had about $1 million in production. He has 35
years of
experience in the financial services industry and is joined by
his son,
Ryan Rothermund, associate vice president of investments, and
registered service associate Susan Dover - with whom he has
partnered
for over nine years.
RBC Wealth Management appointed Harold Langer of the Langer
O’Neill
Investment group as a senior vice president and financial advisor
at the
Tucson, AZ, office.
Langer - latterly a senior vice president at Merrill Lynch - has
30
years of industry experience and $180 million in assets under
administration, with production of $1.2 million.
UBS Wealth Management Americas bolstered its Northbrook, IL,
advisor
force with the addition of Thomas Temple from Bank of America's
Merrill
Lynch.
At Merrill - where he worked for over 25 years - Temple managed
about
$240 million in client assets, with annual revenue production
of
approximately $1.2 million.
New York-listed Westwood Holdings Group hired Mark Wallace as
chief
financial officer, succeeding Bill Hardcastle, who will focus on
the
growth of the firm's domestic and international fund business.
Wallace previously served as CFO, among other financial
leadership
positions, for an S&P 500 real estate investment trust.
Hardcastle,
who was Westwood's CFO for seven years, will also provide
leadership in
other corporate development and strategic initiatives.
Industry veteran Mark Elston and his three-strong team joined
Reno,
NV-based Legacy Wealth Planning, a group of independent
financial
advisors that are affiliated with broker-dealer LPL Financial.
He and his new team plan to maintain over $185 million in
client
assets as they move to an independent business model, via which
they
will manage the assets of about 1,100 clients throughout the
Reno-Sparks
area.
Standard Chartered's chairman for the Americas, David
Stileman,
retired on November 16 after 29 years at the bank. He will not
be
replaced.
Stileman became chairman for the Americas in June 2011,
having
previously served as chief executive of the bank's Americas
business
since late 2007. In this role he was succeeded by Julio Rojas in
New
York.
Minneapolis, MN-based US Bank hired Lisa Simonson and Kato Wade
as
director of financial administration and director of private
client
experience, respectively, for Ascent Private Capital Management,
the
firm's wealth management unit that caters for clients with at
least $25
million in assets.
In a separate move, the bank also named Jorgen Gustafson as
vice
president and senior portfolio manager at the Private Client
Reserve - a
role in which he will provide clients with integrated and
customized
investment services.
RBC Wealth Management International, a division serving high
net
worth clients in Latin America, the Caribbean and the US, hired
Nicolas
Seigal as branch director in Miami.
Seigal was formerly associate director of Merrill Lynch’s
Miami
complex and has been in the industry 18 years, having also worked
in
Uruguay with Merrill Lynch and BankBoston.
At RBC, he takes on responsibility for 13 advisors in the
Miami
office and a further eight in New York until a branch manager can
be
found for that office. He reports to Ricardo Morean, director
of
international advisory.
UBS Wealth Management Americas bolstered its broker force in
Aventura, FL, bringing in a team of advisors from Morgan Stanley
Wealth
Management.
Advisors Michael Bulhack, Mario Ponczek and Douglas Ponczek
previously managed $423 million in client assets and generated
$1.6
million in annual revenue.
HSBC announced new chief executives for its operations in Canada, Australia and the Philippines.
The changes come as, after more than 25 years with HSBC
Group,
Lindsay Gordon will retire as president and CEO of HSBC Bank
Canada and
chairperson of HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada), effective
January
5, 2013.
Gordon will be appointed to the board of directors of HSBC France, subject to required approvals.
Paulo Maia, who will succeed Gordon on January 7 next year,
is
currently CEO of HSBC Bank Australia, a position he has held
since July
2009. Maia held a variety of senior positions with HSBC Bank
Brazil
including executive director of each of the bank’s main business
lines,
and then deputy CEO. Maia joined HSBC in 1993.
In turn, Maia will be succeeded in Sydney by Tony Cripps on
December
24, 2012, who returns to Australia with more than 25 years of
experience
working with HSBC globally.
Nasdaq-listed First PacTrust Bancorp, the holding company for
Pacific
Trust Bank and Beach Business Bank, added a number of senior
staff to
its financial team.
Ronald Nicolas took over as executive vice president and
chief
financial officer of First PacTrust on November 5, after a period
of
acting as a consultant to the firm. He replaced Marangal Domingo,
who
resigned following the filing of the firm’s Q2 results.
Meanwhile, Lonny Robinson joined as executive vice president
and
chief financial officer of Pacific Trust Bank. Previously,
Domingo was
CFO of both First PacTrust and Pacific Trust – a role which has
now been
split. Robinson was latterly CFO of Hamni Financial Corporation,
a
publicly-traded bank holding company, and its subsidiary Hamni
Bank.
Finally, the firm appointed Craig Naselow as executive vice
president, treasurer and chief investment officer of First
PacTrust and
PacTrust Bank. He was previously senior vice president, treasurer
and
investment executive at Aris Development Company.
New York-headquartered Goldman Sachs appointed Mark Tucker as an independent director.
Tucker's appointment expands the board to 12 directors, 10 of
whom
are independent. He will serve as a member of the firm's audit,
risk,
compensation and corporate governance and nominating committees.
Tucker is also group CEO and president of AIA Group, an
independent
pan-Asian life insurance group. Between 2005 and 2009 he served
as group
CEO of Prudential.
Barclays appointed 18 investment representatives in eight
offices
across the US for its wealth and investment management
division,
signalling a major push by the UK-listed bank into the country’s
wealth
management market.
The appointments are as follows:
New York
Tom Dexter joined Barclays as a director from Bank of America
Merrill
Lynch, where he served high net worth individuals, corporate
executives, partnerships, and foundations. Prior to joining Bank
of
America Merrill Lynch in 2008, Dexter spent four years at
Lehman
Brothers as an investment representative.
Brett Fleckman joined as a director from JP Morgan Private
Bank,
where he focused on customized financial solutions for high net
worth
individuals. Prior to that role, Fleckman was the New York
branch
manager for the private client business at Thomas Weisel
Partners, and
previously a financial advisor at Alliance Bernstein.
Mark O'Shea joined as an assistant vice president from Morgan
Stanley
Wealth Management, where he advised high net worth individuals
and
families as part of the Moldaver 80 Group. Prior to joining
Morgan
Stanley, O’Shea worked on the trading floor of the New York
Stock
Exchange managing the daily order flow for several investment
banks and
hedge funds.
Lastly, Edward Moldaver joined as a managing director from
Morgan
Stanley Wealth Management. Previously, he was a senior managing
director
at Bear Stearns’ private wealth client services group.
Los Angeles
Jonathan Bates joined Barclays as a director from JP Morgan,
where he
specialized in municipal bonds, working with high net worth
individuals
and middle market institutions.
San Francisco
Hugh Beecher joined Barclays as a director from Credit
Suisse’s
private banking division, where he served high net worth
individuals and
families.
Boston
Patrick Delahunty joined Barclays as a director from JP
Morgan
Private Bank where, as a senior private banker, he focused on
advising
high net worth individuals, families, business owners,
institutions and
endowments and foundations to provide customized solutions for
their
wealth management needs.
Timothy King joined Barclays as a director from JP Morgan
Private
Bank, where he worked as an investment team leader, with high net
worth
individuals, families, public and private institutions,
corporate
executives, and business owners.
Tim Humphrey joined Barclays as an assistant vice president from JP Morgan Private Bank, which he joined in 2008.
Lastly, Brian Kelly was appointed as an assistant vice president.
He
joins from JP Morgan Private Bank, where he had worked since 2007
as an
investment associate.
Dallas
Noble Nash joined Barclays as a director from Credit Suisse’s
private
banking division where he served high net worth families and
institutions since 2000.
Mike Whorton joined Barclays as a director from Credit Suisse’s private banking division which he joined in 2000.
Chris Boley joined Barclays as a vice president from Credit
Suisse’s
private banking division, where he worked with business
owners,
executives and foundations.
Atlanta
Scott Macolino joined Barclays as a director from SunTrust
Investment
Services where, as a private wealth advisor, he served ultra high
net
worth individuals, corporate executives and professional
investors.
Miami
Carlos Gallo joined Barclays as a director from UBS Financial
Services, where as a senior vice president within the
international
division, he served high net worth individuals and families in
Peru,
Mexico and Venezuela.
Irl Solomon joined Barclays as a director from Morgan Stanley
Wealth
Management, where as an executive director he served high net
worth
individuals, family offices and institutions.
Jeannie Adams-Camblin joined Barclays as a vice president from
UBS
Financial Services. At UBS, Adams-Camblin was a vice president
within
the international division serving high net worth individuals
and
families.
Palm Beach
Clark Appleby joined Barclays as an assistant vice president
from
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. At his predecessor firm, he
assisted
high net worth individuals and families with their wealth
management
goals.
Brighton, MI-based Pinnacle Wealth Management, a
privately-owned
financial planning practice, brought in Nadine Burns as director
of
business development.
Rasco Klock, the Coral Gables, FL-based law firm, appointed
Craig
Linder as special counsel, with responsibility for the securities
law
practice.
Linder rejoins former colleagues/senior lawyers Joe Klock,
Janet
Munn, Gabe Nieto, J C Antorcha, Jack Shawde and John Eaton,
working
within the corporate, securities and finance practice.
Deutsche Bank appointed senior manager Jacques Brand as its
chief
executive for North America, joining the Frankfurt-listed bank’s
group
executive committee. He took over from Seth Waugh, who as
announced in
February this year is stepping down after a decade in the post.
Brand has been at Germany’s largest bank since 1999, joining in
New
York. Most recently, he has been the global head of investment
banking
coverage and advisory in its corporate banking and securities
division.
As part of the change, Waugh will join Deutsche Bank’s
Americas
advisory board and become a senior advisor to the bank and its
clients.
Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank also announced that it has appointed
Bill
Woodley as deputy CEO of North America, a newly created
position.
Woodley joined the bank in 1998 and is also global chief
operating
officer of the regional management division.
BNY Mellon made two senior hires for its wealth management office
in
Atlanta, adding a senior private banker and sales director.
Jonathan Blackwood, senior private banker, will manage BNY
Mellon
Wealth Management’s private banking activities in Georgia,
reporting to
regional private banking director Lisa Simington. David Noosinow,
senior
sales director, will work on business development throughout
Georgia,
as well as Lexington, Louisville and Kentucky, reporting to the
regional
sales manager of the Mid-Altlantic and Central, Garrett Alton.
Blackwood joined NY Mellon from Wells Fargo, where he worked for
over
20 years, most recently as a senior vice president and senior
private
banker for the company’s Atlanta private bank.
United Kingdom
UK-based Sesame Bankhall Group, the network support service
for financial advisors, appointed Diana Miller as an independent,
non-executive
director. With 30 years’ experience in the financial services
industry, Miller
held a number of risk, compliance and legal positions. She was
latterly group
risk and compliance director at Legal & General, where she worked
for 22
years.
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership appointed Michaela
Rayner and Martin Orrin as investment sales directors in its UK
wholesale
team. Rayner is responsible for increasing SWIP's share of the
intermediary and
discretionary fund management markets in the North of England
while Orrin will
focus on the south-west of England
and the Midlands. Both report to Martyn Gilbey
head of wholesale. Rayner joined SWIP from AXA Investment
Managers where she
was a discretionary sales manager.
Liontrust appointed Michael Mabbutt as head of its
newly-formed global credit division. The firm will launch a
Dublin-based global
strategic bond fund in the new year, subject to appropriate
regulatory
approvals. Mabbutt joined from Thames River Capital where he is
currently a
consulting partner.
Kevin Parry was due to leave as Schroders' chief financial
officer and director on 5 May 2013, succeeded by Richard Keers.
Keers was at
the time of the announcement a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
and was PwC's
global relationship partner for Schroders between 2006 and 2010.
Geoffrey Clarkson, group director at Tenet Group, was due to
leave in early 2013 to pursue other ambitions. Clarkson, a
regulatory lawyer,
joined the group in 2000 when he moved across as part of the
acquisition of IFA
Professional, a support services proposition which he developed
whilst a
partner for Bond Pearce.
Verbatim Asset Management, the financial planning arm of
UK-based SimplyBiz Group, added WAY Fund Managers' chief
executive Peter Smith
to its investment committee. Smith, a director of Verbatim
Discretionary
Managers, is a full member of the committee. He reports into the
committee for
Verbatim Discretionary Service, providing insight into
discretionary fund
managers including their capabilities and how they might be used
by IFAs.
UK
investment manager Quilter made three new appointments to its
in-house research
team. Anubhav Rastogi and Amish Patel joined as equity research
analysts while
Nick Wood joins as a collectives research analyst.
Charles Gothard of Speechly Bircham was to leave in the
spring of 2013 to rejoin Macfarlanes as a partner. Gothard
trained and
qualified at Macfarlanes, the international law firm, but left to
join
Speechlys in 2005.
David Gurr, head of UK financial intermediaries at
Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management, retired. Gurr, who was
appointed
managing head of financial intermediaries in 2006, was replaced
by Miles
Robinson, head of Deutsche's Birmingham
office.
Grant Peterkin, senior portfolio manager at Ignis Asset
Management, left the firm to move abroad. Peterkin, who joined
the firm in
April 2011, co-managed the Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond
fund with
three others: Russ Oxley, head of rates; Stuart Thomson, chief
economist; and
Adam Purzitsky.
Signia Wealth hired Rupert Robinson, former chief executive
of Schroders UK Private Bank. Robinson is based in the group’s
London office, where he heads the firm’s
wealth management activities.
Standard Chartered Private Bank appointed Scott Le Flour as
a senior associate director in Jersey,
recruiting him from Coutts. Le Flour was named as an associate
director for
Coutts in the Channel Islands at the start of
August.
Leo Fund Managers, the London-based hedge fund and private
equity group, appointed Ben Davis as head of sales and investor
relations. Davis joined from
StormHarbour Alternative Investments where he was partner and
head of investor
relations.
Boost ETP, the newly-launched UK exchange-traded products
provider, appointed Richard Kent as head of product operations
and Jose Poncela
as senior in-house legal counsel. Kent was latterly a director in
the
equity and fund-linked derivatives team at UBS Investment Bank,
having
previously worked at Barclays Capital. Poncela, meanwhile, served
as in-house
counsel at Spain’s
La Caixa, as a vice president within Nomura’s corporate equity
derivatives
structuring group and as a structurer in the fund-linked
derivatives and equity
capital market/corporate equity derivatives team at UBS.
Brown Advisory, the US investment house, added Keryn
Brock to its London-based fund sales team. She joined from BNY
Mellon Wealth
Management in Boston,
where she was an advisor to US-based high net worth families,
charities,
endowments and foundations.
HedgeStart, a London-based consultancy working in the
alternative
investments space, appointed Laurence Parry, a former UK
government
revenue specialist and experienced accountant to work in its
private client tax
practice. Parry was named as a partner.
Previously, he was a specialist anti-avoidance advisor with HM
Revenue &
Customs for three years.
Bruce Ely-Johnston, founder of London & Capital’s
advisor solutions business, has resurfaced at Sanlam Private
Investments as
head of business development.
ETF Securities appointed Melanie Svalander as director of
communications in London.
She reports to Steve Setton, head of marketing and
communications. Svalander
previously worked in corporate communications at the Swiss
private bank Banque
Syz & Co.
Towry, the UK
wealth advisory firm, added Pete Cormack to its Edinburgh office
as a wealth advisor. Cormack
previously spent a decade as a financial planning manager at
Royal Bank of Scotland. He is
also known, however, for having been a professional footballer
who played in
both the English and Scottish leagues for 16 years before
beginning his
financial services career at Canada Life.
The wealth and investment management division of Barclays
added
private banker Debbie Cotton to its Reading
office. Cotton previously spent five years as a wealth advisor at
Towry.
Brewin Dolphin named Henry Algeo to the position of group
managing director. He was previously chief operating officer.
Reech AiM Group, the international asset manager, appointed
Gary Sher and Adam Mincer as finance director and head of
operations and
technology, respectively. Both appointees are based in London and
report to Christophe Reech,
chairman and chief executive.
WH Ireland appointed its head of private wealth management,
Richard Killingbeck, as an executive director. Killingbeck joined
WH Ireland in
mid-September. He was previously managing director of Credit
Suisse’s UK
private banking business, a post he took up in April 2010.
Rowan Dartington appointed Kevin Bowhay as a discretionary
fund manager, charging him primarily with growing the firm’s
funds under
management and supporting its expansion. Bowhay joined from
Lloyds TSB Private
Banking, where he had worked for 25 years advising high and ultra
high net
worth clients.
Quilter added David Soutar to its investment team in Edinburgh.
Soutar was
previously joint managing partner at Castlefield Investments,
where he managed
a range of portfolios for charities, pension schemes and private
investors.
Mattioli Woods appointed investment consultant Stan Allen.
Allen, who will work across all of the firm’s offices in
London,
Leicester, Aberdeen and Glasgow, was latterly a relationship
manager
at Coutts. Before joining Royal Bank of Scotland’s flagship
wealth brand he
worked in business and corporate banking for NatWest.
Richard Beggs, head of UK
investment advisory at JP Morgan’s private banking business in
London, resigned from the firm.
Standard Life Investments, the UK-based fund management
division of Standard Life appointed Rickey Thevakarrunai as fund
analyst to
strengthen its multi-manager fund solutions team. Latterly,
Thevakarrunai was
portfolio analyst at PIMCO, prior to which he worked at State
Street Global
Advisors.
Standard Life Investments added Adam Rudd as an investment
director in the multi-asset team. Rudd previously worked for JP
Morgan in New York. He reports to
Guy Stern, head of multi-asset fund management.
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners brought in
Hélène Lewis, a British Virgin Islands private
client practitioner, to serve as chair of the international board
for one year
from 1 December. She succeeded incumbent chair Michael Young TEP,
who retired
from STEP’s board.
HSBC Global Asset Management named Andy Clark as its new UK
chief
executive, succeeding Simeon Brown, who the firm said is leaving
to pursue
other interests after 16 years at the group.
DWF, the UK
law firm, aded associate Jon Gould to its Newcastle
office in the private client team. Gould previously worked for
Hay & Kilner
Solicitors in Newcastle and Linder Myers in Manchester. He has
worked
with private clients for six years.
BlueBay Asset Management appointed Erich Gerth as global
head of business development in London.
Gerth, who is also a partner, leads BlueBay’s global sales and
marketing
activities and sits on the management committee. He joined from
Aviva
Investors, where he was chief executive of Asia-Pacific and
global business
development.
Legal & General Property, the property fund management
arm of the Legal & General insurance and investments group,
appointed Bill
Page as business research manager. Page joined from Jones Lang
LaSalle, where
he had headed its EMEA offices research team for seven years.
UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank named banking director
Nigel Gautrey as managing director of its Isle of Man
business. Gautrey succeeded Alan Molloy, who left after 18 years,
but who
remained with the firm for a handover period. Gautrey joined
Duncan Lawrie
Private Bank Isle of Man as head of banking in 2000 and is also a
director of
the bank’s fiduciary services company, Duncan Lawrie Offshore
Services.
The wealth and investment management division of Barclays
recruited two veterans from Coutts - Mark Priestley and Michael
Foy - for its London office. Priestley,
who joined as a director, had worked for Coutts for 25 years,
spending the past
18 of these as a banker serving high net worth individuals.
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership took on Martyn Gilbey
as head of wholesale in London.
Gilbey reports to Francis Ghiloni, director of distribution and
client
management.
Brewin Dolphin appointed Alan Riddell as divisional director
in its Glasgow
office. Riddell was formerly a senior associate director at
Speirs &
Jeffrey, having worked at the firm for 25 years.
Switzerland’s
MIG Bank appointed Paul Chrimes as chief operating officer of MIG
Capital (Europe), its London-based subsidiary. Chrimes was
latterly
chief executive of E*TRADE, a role he took up in 2010.
Asia-Pacific
National Australia Bank named Lara Bourguignon as managing
director of
its wealth unit Plum Financial Services. Bourguignon was
previously a senior
strategist for NAB Wealth.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced Simon Lucocq as head
of
technology and operations in the Asia-Pacific region based in
Hong
Kong. Lucocq was previously with Nomura where for the last
four
years he was the global chief information officer. He now reports
to Bill
Pappas, CIO for global wholesale banking, and has regional
accountability to
Matthew Koder, president for Asia-Pacific.
US asset manager
Principal Global Invesors named Mihail Dobrinov as head of its
emerging markets
equities team to replace Michael Reynal, who has left the firm.
Dobrinov, who
joined the company in 1995 as international and emerging market
debt and
currency specialist, inherited the management of some $9.3
billion in assets
for clients in the region.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission announced plans
to
increase its advisor numbers head of the planned launch of the
Future of
Financial Advice legislation in 2013. So far, the ASIC has listed
eight vacant
positions in the Sydney and Melbourne branches for advisors
specialising in
risk management and compliance and legal.
Brooks Entwistle, partner and chairman for the Goldman Sachs'
South East Asia business announced his retirement
effective the end of 2012. Entwistle has been with the company
for 20 years. He
will not be totally leaving the bank on his retirement, however,
and will stay
on as advisory director.
UK-listed Henderson Global Investors named Matt Gaden as head
of
distribution for the Australian business. Gaden was the general
manager for
institutional business and strategic alliances for Challenger
Limited. He now
reports to Rob Adams, executive chairman of Henderson
Australia.
Cushman & Wakefield, the global real estate services firm,
opened
its fifth office in Asia for 2012 in the Philippines and
appointed Joe
Curran as general manager. Curran was previously with CBRE
Philippines, where
he worked for eight years. The move is in line with the company's
five-year
aggressive expansion plan in Asia-Pacific.
French fund house Oddo Asset Management opened its first office
in Asia
and out of Europe and named Roy Diao as chief
executive. Diao joined the firm in October from BNP Paribas
Investment
Partners. He operates alone in Singapore
in the interim while the firm builds up a team. He repots to
Nicolas Chaput,
the Paris-based CEO of the asset management business.
Perpetual Private, the wealth arm of Perpetual Limited, named
Mark
Smith as its new group executive, succeeding Nick Langton, who
returned to his
old position of general manager of private client advise. Smith
is based in Sydney and reports to
Geoff Lloyd, chief executive.
Citi named former Australian first minister for superannuation
and
corporate law Nick Sherry to the newly-created role of senior
advisor to securities
and fund services, part of the firm’s transaction services
division. The
establishment of the role addresses predictions that Australia's
super industry will
triple is size by 2035.
Newly-opened Australian financial advisory firm Shartru Wealth
Management
opened its first branch and named Dr John Hewson, Linden Toll and
Andrew Meakin
as its board members. Hewson is the chairman of Shartru Capital,
its parent
firm, while Toll and Meakin are executive directors.
Standard Chartered Private Bank named Desmond Liu as managing
director
and head of private banking, Hong Kong and North East Asia, to
lead the
strategic direction of the business in greater China
and north-east Asia. This is a newly-created
Hong Kong-based role. Liu reports to Mary Huen, head of consumer
banking, Hong Kong and to Rajesh Malkani, head of private
bank,
East.
Credit Suisse restructured its global operations, effectively
scrapping
the roles of dedicated chief executive for Asia-Pacific and EMEA,
among others.
Osama Abbasi and Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad, who served as CEOs for
those two regions,
have left the firm. It is not known to where they are moving.
Withers relocated Eric Wallace, its London
partner, to Hong Kong on increasing demand for international
legal
services in Asia. Wallace was tasked to focus on international
tax,
probate, and trust and estate planning, with a particular focus
on US
persons
and property.
BNY Mellon strengthened its Hong Kong
operations with the hire of Fred DiCocco as head of sales and
relationship
management, treasury services, for Asia-Pacific. DiCocco became
part of BNY
Mellon in 1998 and has held a number of senior roles in trade and
payments
since relocating to Hong Kong in 2006. His
most recent role was as treasury services Asia-Pacific market
manager.
Northern Trust expanded its tax solutions capacity in Australia
and New Zealand with the appointment of
Zaf Kardaras as tax manager, supporting financial and tax
reporting for clients
in the funds management and superannuation industries. Based in
Melbourne, he leads a
team of 60 professionals specialising in fund accounting, unit
pricing,
financial reporting and tax. He joined from
PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Citi Hong Kong announced Weber Lo as the new country officer and
chief
executive for Hong Kong and Macau, effective 1
January 2013. Lo assumes the lead role, replacing Shengman Zhang,
who will
continue his role as co-chairman for Citi Asia-Pacific. Lo is
currently the
head of the consumer banking business in Hong Kong and Macau,
covering retail banking, investment, insurance, credit card and
consumer
lending, as well as commercial banking.
Coutts, the private bank, continued its run of top-rank hires
with the
appointment of Joseph Lam as managing director and head of the
private office
North Asia, based in Hong Kong. The role is a
newly created position. Lam joined from Merrill Lynch.
Bell Asset Management, the Australian investment management
firm,
strengthened its senior management roster with three
appointments. Jessica
Grant is now head of business development, Jack Osborn is now an
equity
analyst, while Farhaana Desai is compliance manager. Grant joined
BAM after
serving a similar role with Macquarie Group and brings seven
years of financial
planning experience to the firm. Osborn used to be with Macquarie
Private
Wealth, while Desai held a compliance and governance post at UCA
Funds
Management.
Franklin Templeton Investments bulked up its advisory services
team by
appointing Matthew Hattersley to the role of northern region key
account
manager based in Sydney.
Hattersley previously worked for the likes of Invesco, Credit
Suisse, Bridges
Financial Services and BT Funds. In this new role, he is
responsible for
national key accounts and dealer groups partnerships in New
South Wales, the ACT and Queensland.
Manulife International appointed Steve Chiu as vice president
for
investment funds, Hong Kong. Chiu joined the
firm from Bosera Asset Management, where he was managing director
for of
the Hong Kong business. Before that, he was managing director
at AIA Wealth Management. He now reports to Michael Huddart,
executive
vice
president and chief executive of Hong Kong.
Northern Trust named financial services veteran Bo Kratz as
managing
director for the Asia-Pacific asset management business. Kratz
used to work for
Permal and ABN Amro Asset Management in Hong Kong and Singapore.
In
his new role, he leads the $50 billion Asia-Pac asset management
team and
reports functionally to Wayne Bowers and locally to Teresa
Parker, chief
executive for Asia-Pacific.
Credit Suisse cut a number of roles in its asset management
operations
in Singapore,
including some high-ranking executives. The bank did not expand
on specific
roles or give names, but WealthBriefing Asia can confirm that
several people
will be leaving. Credit Suisse declined to comment on the issue,
but said that
any changes will not affect the manufacturing of products.
Coutts, the UK-headquartered private banking and wealth
management
firm, appointed Ray Chan as executive director, head of
Philippines.
Chan previously worked for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong,
where he was responsible for building an offshore Philippine team
targetting
the ultra-high net worth market. He now reports to Ignatius KK
Chong, head of Hong Kong.