JM Finn, the UK-based investment house, has hired John Everall as a senior investment manager.

Everall joins from the stockbroker Barratt & Cooke, and he has also worked for Salomon Brothers, Ernst & Young and Albert E Sharpe.

Everall’s appointment brings the number of senior investment managers at JM Finn, which advises or has discretionary management of some £5.6 billion ($9.2 billion) in private client funds, to four.

In related news, the firm appointed former England test cricketer Alec Stewart as its brand ambassador in April.