Hal Catherwood has taken up leadership of the Belfast office of London-listed private client investment manager Brewin Dolphin, having helped set up the office with Henry Algeo and Randal Herron in 2005.

Mr Algeo, previous head of the Belfast office, has been appointed regional managing director for the Scottish and Irish region.

Brewin Dophin’s Belfast branch, which has a team of seventeen investment managers and support staff, principally provides discretionary investment management, along with advisory services.

The Belfast team also works with the province’s IFAs in order to develop their provision of SIPP and inheritance tax mitigation services.

Brewin Dolphin has 39 offices across the UK and Channel Islands, managing approximately £20 billion ($29.8 billion) of funds for 130,000 private clients, charities and pension funds.