Barclays Wealth has added two private bankers to its expanding investment management division in Edinburgh.

Chris Cowan joins from Royal Bank of Scotland-owned Adam Bank, where he was latterly a senior banker responsible for a team of nine people.  It is intended that Mr Cowan will be instrumental in helping with the planned roll-out of the firm’s banking proposition later in 2008.

Duncan Hunter recently transferred to the BW Edinburgh office from the firm’s headquarters in London with over 15 years of investment banking experience. From 2000 to 2002 he ran European equity capital markets for SG Cowen in Europe.  Directly before joining Barclays Wealth, Mr Hunter spent the last five years with Merrill Lynch.

The recent additions are a part of building of the team in Edinburgh under the direction of Mark Little and Douglas Noble.  Recent key hires have included James Osborne and Cherie Hamoudi, who joined the investment management team in August from Turcan Connell, and the appointment of four new financial planners in July, to develop the firm’s financial planning expertise.