The asset manager has been systematically creating dedicated service teams across core European markets.

PGIM Investmentst, the $1.3 trillion global investment management business of Prudential Financial, is expanding in Europe adding team members to cover the Benelux region, along with additions in Switzerland and London. Two are seasoned managers moving from Goldman Sachs asset management.

Yvo van der Pol will be based in PGIM’s Dutch office and focus on growing its presence with private banks and financial intermediaries in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Robin Diener is joining the recently formed team in Zurich; and Alastair Warren is joining in London to help grow business in the UK and Nordics.

Expansion in the Benelux follows the group’s decision to set up a dedicated team for Switzerland earlier this year and the same for Germany and Austria last year, increasing the European hotpsots that are served by dedicated teams.

The firm said that committing more talent locally in all these regions “reflects the demand we are seeing from clients”, especially among firms wanting to do business with fewer investment partners that can combine global and local reach, it said.

Van der Pol spent nine years as an executive director responsible for the Benelux business at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Before that, he held senior sales posts at Societe Generale Asset Management and Robeco Asset Management, focusing on the Dutch market. He reports to Kimberly LaPointe head of PGIM Investments International.

Diener is also moving from Goldman Sachs AM, where he specialised in the Swiss-German wholesale market. He reports to Pascal Weber, who joined PGIM Investments earlier this year to build on the firm’s Swiss presence.

Warren, who is joining from M&G Investments where he was a client relationship manager, reports to Charles Wilson, head of European accounts (UK & Nordics).