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Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - UBS WM, AMP Capital, Others
The latest moves in wealth management across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Global asset manager Franklin
Templeton Investments has appointed Andrew Ness as a
portfolio manager of Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity
(FTEME).
Ness will join the firm on 17 September, and will be part of the
Global Emerging Markets (GEM) investment team. He will be a
portfolio manager for the London Stock Exchange-listed Templeton
Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT), working alongside
TEMIT lead portfolio manager Chetan Sehgal, who continues to
serve as director of portfolio management for GEM and small cap
strategies for FTEME.
He will be named as a portfolio manager of additional global
emerging markets strategies, over time. Ness will be based in
Edinburgh and will report to Manraj Sekhon, chief investment
officer for FTEME.
Prior to Franklin Templeton, he was at Martin Currie, where he
was a senior member of its global emerging markets equity team.
Previously, he held similar roles for Scottish Widows Investment
Partnership (SWIP) and Deutsche Asset Management, having begun
his investment career at Murray Johnstone in 1994.
AMP Capital
Global investment manager AMP Capital has
appointed Malcolm Brown as a senior principal in its global
infrastructure equity business in London.
He has acted as a Senior Advisor to AMP Capital’s infrastructure
business since 2015.
Brown will start at AMP Capital on 30 July and will be based in
London.
Martin Currie
Investment manager Martin Currie has
appointed Paul Sloane as portfolio manager of its global emerging
markets (“GEMs”) team
Sloane previously worked at Martin Currie for 14 years, most
recently as co-manager of Martin Currie’s global alpha strategy.
He joins on 13 August.
UBS Wealth Management
Swiss banking group UBS has confirmed Jakob Stott will
retire from his role in the bank's wealth management
operation at the end of the year.
Stott was most recently a vice president in the wealth management
division, after having previously been the head of wealth
management for Europe for several years.
