People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - BMO, Kingswood
The latest moves in wealth management across Europe and the Middle East.
BMO Global Asset Management
BMO
Global Asset Management has appointed Cristiana de Alessi as
a portfolio manager in the global rates team. She reports to
Keith Patton, global head of unconstrained fixed income.
De Alessi focuses on local fixed income across emerging markets.
She is responsible for investment decisions related to emerging
market interest rates, currencies and global macro-economic
factors, covering BMO’s absolute return fixed income
strategies.
De Alessi is an emerging market fixed income specialist with more
than 15 years of experience covering the asset class. Prior to
joining BMO Global Asset Management, she analysed emerging market
local fixed income strategies at BNP Paribas Asset Management,
and was a macro strategist for Moore Capital Management. She
began her career at the Bank of England as an economist.
Kingswood Holdings
London-listed wealth management group Kingswood
Holdings has appointed Rob Suss, co-chief executive of UK
Agricultural Finance and co-founder of Global Tower Solutions, as
a non-executive director.
Suss will advise Kingswood on its global wealth management
strategy, working with senior management. He takes the role
immediately.
A former managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he had worked
for 18 years, most recently he was head of private wealth
management at Goldmans Sachs in London from 2012 to 2015. Before
that, he was the head of UK and Ireland private wealth management
from 2008 to 2012. From 2006 to 2008, Suss served as the head of
wealth management solutions at the US firm.
Suss is also involved with a number of philanthropic
organisations, serving as deputy chair of the Trust of the Royal
Academy of the Arts and a trustee of JK Rowling’s charitable
endeavour Lumos.
Global Tower Solutions is a company which delivers off-grid energy solutions to the mobile telecom tower industry and builds ground-mounted solar in developing countries where the need for clean energy is growing. UK Agricultural Finance, another firm with which Suss is involved, is a specialist lender serving the agricultural community.
