Strategy
Quilter Rebrands Unit, Shuffles Management

The rebrand will come into effect at the end of June.
UK wealth manager Quilter, formerly Old Mutual
Wealth, has confirmed its multi-asset business will rebrand to
Quilter Investors at the end of June 2018. The firm has
also made a number of appointments to its senior management
team.
Quilter Investors' range of solutions, including Cirilium,
Generation, Creation and the sub-advised funds included within
the WealthSelect Managed Portfolio Service, will all adopt the
new Quilter brand.
Quilter Investors will be the first business unit within Quilter
to adopt the new brand, after the group company name changed to
Quilter in
March. The new brand comes into effect over the weekend of 29
June to 2 July.
Appointments
Anthony Gilham will join chief executive Paul Simpson on the
executive committee. Gillham will continue to lead the
multi-asset investment desk as head of investments.
Dean Bowden has been appointed chief commercial officer. Anita
Masih has been appointed head of human resources and
Mitchell Dean has been appointed to the dual role of chief
operating officer and chief financial officer. They all join the
executive committee.
Fiona Woodhouse has been appointed new chief risk officer and
also joins the executive committee. She joins the firm from Janus
Henderson.
Reporting to the executive committee, Daniella Johnston joins
from Aberdeen Standard Investments as head of marketing; Alex
Risby joins from Royal London Asset Management as head of IT;
Matt Leary joins from Brown Advisory as head of operations;
Maziar Alamouti will join from Agilis Investment Management as
head of dealing; and Shawn Rea and Deborah Nash become head of
finance and head of legal respectively, joining from OMGI.
In September 2017, this publication
reported that Old Mutual Wealth (Quilter) announced that it
would create a dedicated multi-asset investment business, as it
planned to spin-off from Old Mutual.
Old Mutual Wealth (UK platform/life assurance); Old Mutual
International; Intrinsic; Old Mutual Wealth Private Client
Advisers; and Old Mutual Wealth Financial Adviser School will
adopt the Quilter brand over the course of the phased rebranding.
Quilter Cheviot and AAM Advisory (Singapore) will retain their
names.