Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has added Amy Howlett and Jim Barrett - latterly of Barclays Wealth and Goldman Sachs respectively - as financial advisors to its London office.

In their new roles, Howlett and Barrett report to Adam Horowitz, who is head of UK, Ireland and Israel.

Howlett will work with high net worth clients in the UK, having joined Merrill Lynch from Barclays Wealth, where she was a financial advisor to HNW individuals. 

Barrett, meanwhile, joins from Goldman Sachs, where he was most recently a financial investment professional in the private wealth management business. He will also concentrate on UK clients, working in partnership with Peter Anderson, senior financial advisor. 

In other recent developments, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management appointed five financial advisors to its Middle Eastern business earlier this month.