People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Payne Hicks Beach, Octopus
The latest moves in wealth management from across Europe and the Middle East.
Payne Hicks Beach
Payne Hicks
Beach, the London-based law firm, has created a new
management board and changed the heads of its family and private
client departments, to take effect from 1 June.
Private client partner, Robert Brodrick, will become chair of the
management board, which will also consist of the head of dispute
resolution, Dominic Crossley and the head of corporate, Jonathan
Gatward. Virginia Farquharson remains as the firm’s director of
management.
Alastair Murdie will retire on 31 May after a career as a private
client solicitor, head of department and senior partner. Ian
Airey will also step down as head of the firm’s family department
to focus on his practice as a partner.
Rebecca Cockcroft and Philip McGuirk have been appointed co-heads
of the family department. Having joined the firm in 2014,
Cockcroft's practice encompasses all aspects of private family
law. McGuirk has been at Payne Hicks Beach for nearly 20 years
and has particular expertise in financial remedy work with
extensive experience in complex international family financial
disputes.
The private client department will be led by partner, Rosamond
McDowell. She specialises in tax and estate planning advice,
including contentious trust matters.
Octopus Group
Octopus Group
has appointed Ruth Handcock as the new chief executive for its
investments business. She takes over from co-founder Simon
Rogerson who remains CEO of the group and will become the
executive chairman for Octopus Investments.
This is the first time a new CEO has been appointed for Octopus
Investments since the company was founded in 2000.
Handcock joined Octopus from UK challenger bank Tandem in July
2018 as chief customer officer, working across operations, sales
and marketing.
BNP Paribas
BNP
Paribas Asset Management has named Christopher Dunn to take
up the newly-formed role of global head of client satisfaction,
part of the French firm’s client experience team, also a new
entity.
Dunn joined in January and reports to Melanie Aimer, global head of client experience. Based in New York, he will shortly relocate to Paris.
Prior to this, Dunn was at Greenwich Associates, where he was a vice president within its investment management practice. He previously worked at Fidelity International in its global institutions group and at UK Trade & Investment, the UK Government’s international business development arm. He has a master of international business from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts.