People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Northern Trust, EQ Investors
The latest moves in wealth management around the world.
Northern Trust
Northern
Trust has appointed Herman Prummel as country head
of the Netherlands, in a bid to expand its continental
Europe offering, the firm said in a statement.
Prummel succeeds Wim van Ooijen who was recently appointed to
lead Northern Trust’s business activities in Switzerland in
addition to his existing role as head of Northern Trust’s German
office.
Based in Amsterdam, Prummel is responsible for business
development, sales and client activities for Northern Trust’s
asset servicing business and will also work closely with the
company’s local asset management team.
Prummel joins Northern Trust from BlackRock where he
was chief operating officer for the Netherlands, Nordics and Isle
of Man regions.
EQ Investors
EQ Investors,
the boutique wealth manager led by John Spiers, has appointed
Mark Howlett as executive director, the firm said in a
statement.
The new hire will be partly responsible for the advice side
of the business.
Howlett previously worked for Broadstone Corporate Benefits,
where he was chief executive. Prior to that, he led the private
client and corporate benefits divisions of BDO Investment
Management. His background and experience spans wealth
management, pensions and employee benefits, and he has over
25 years of expertise in senior executive positions.
YFM Equity Partners
YFM Equity
Partners has appointed Steve Harrison as portfolio
director, the firm said in a statement.
Based in the Leeds office, Harrison will be focused on
actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out investments as part of
the portfolio team led by David Bell.
With over 19 years’ industry experience, Harrison joins from
Santander Corporate Bank, where he was a director in Santander’s
growth capital team for five years.
Schroders
Schroders
has appointed Frank Thormann as portfolio manager
of its global equities team, the firm said in a statement.
Thormann joins Schroders from Frankfurt-based Union Investment
where he was a global portfolio manager. Before joining
Union Investment in 2008, Frank worked at American Century
Investments in Kansas City, US, where he was a
multi-industry analyst for the American Century Ultra Fund, as
well as for the AC Select Equity Fund.
