The latest roundup of moves across the wealth management sector.

Edge Investments
London-based Edge Investments, a specialist investment house concentrating on the creative industry, appointed Steve Carle to the role of chief investment officer for the firm’s Edge Performance VCT, a venture capital trust.

The appointment is a promotion for Carle, who joined Edge in 2015 as investment director following 20 years at 3i Group and LDC, which are mid-market private equity companies. In his tenure as investment director, he managed Edge’s £40 million Edge Creative Enterprise Fund, along with the Edge Performance VCT. He is a director of Coolabi, Edge Performance VCT's largest investment and oversees Edge’s interests at the board meetings of Intent HQ and deltaDNA.

Terry Back, a media asset specialist and former partner of Grant Thornton’s Media and Entertainment sector group, will join Edge’s board.

Redmayne-Bentley
Investment management and stockbroking firm Redmayne-Bentley has expanded its Cambridge office with the addition of investment manager Jonathan Adams, the firm said in a statement.

Adams joins from Fieldings Investment Management, with whom he had been an investment manager since 1993. He started his career with Laurie Milbank/Chase Manhattan, before moving to Panmure Gordon where he was assistant director. In 1986, he joined Baring Brothers, where he held specialist responsibilities for UK and US clients and was a member of the strategy committee.

Avaloq
Financial technology firm Avaloq has named Stefan Benz head of digital and front to head up its digitisation strategy. 

He will report to Thomas Beck, the company's group chief technology officer. The appointment will also see Benz join Avaloq's executive board.

In total, he has more than 20 years' experience in financial services, and has work at IBM, Credit Suisse and Zurich Financial Services.