The latest moves in wealth management across the Europe, Middle East and Africa.

J Safra Sarasin
Switzerland's J Safra Sarasin has appointed two senior figures to bolster its distribution business within the Alpine state and further afield.

Marco Corti has joined the wholesale division as director to manage relations with banks, insurance companies, asset managers and family offices and will be based in Zurich. Corti has over 15 years of experience in the wholesale business, having spent more than four years with Swisscanto Invest/Zürcher Kantonalbank and having previously worked with Man Investments and Bank Leu.

Volker Buschmann has joined Banque J Safra Sarasin (Luxembourg) as an executive director, heading the wholesale and institutional business for the Benelux and Nordic countries. With over 25 years of experience, Buschmann assumed various senior positions for RobecoSAM Europe GmbH in Frankfurt and for M&G International Investments both in Frankfurt and in Zurich. He also worked with Gartmore Investment Services, BHF Bank and Dresdner Bank.

Peel Hunt
Peel Hunt, the corporate brokerage house, has made three senior appointments to boost its corporate, broking, and sales and research division.

The UK mid- and small-cap specialist said that the appointments were made in response to client demands for MiFID-compliance services. The firm said it has seen a 29 per cent increase in research-paying clients since MiFID II came in to force in January this year.

Andrew Buchanan joins as a director in the corporate broking financial institutions group. The 20-year veteran has over a decade of senior experience at UBS, and before that he worked in equities research at HSBC James Capel Securities. He has joined from Canaccord Genuity, where he was a managing director.

John Gilbert joins from Macquarie to manage specialist sales for Peel Hunt’s natural resources team. He brings extensive sales experience in the energy and mining sectors, previously working at specialist resources firms including FirstEnergy Capital, Libertas Capital and Fox-Davies Capital.

Tim Huff caps the hiring effort, coming as a research analyst in the mining team. He joins from RBC’s research division after holding a number of research analyst posts at RBS, Citi and Credit Suisse, having spent 25 years in the sector.

Buchanan and Gilbert have already started, and Huff joins this month.