London & Capital, the UK wealth management boutique, has appointed two new business development managers - Chris Hood and Graham Robinson - as it continues to build out its advisor solutions team.

Latterly, Hood worked at Scottish Widows and has more than 25 years’ experience working with advisors in the north, the region he will oversee in his new role.

With a 17-year career across life assurance and pension planning, Robinson joins London & Capital from Zurich Financial Services and will be responsible for the southwest - including south Wales - in his new role.

Hood and Robinson will be responsible for advisor liaison, offering support and assistance to clients looking to utilise London & Capital’s income and growth managed portfolios.

London & Capital simultaneously announced the promotion of Paola Forsberg from sales support to business development manager for London and the southeast region, and the departure of its head of advisor solutions, Bruce Ely-Johnston, to pursue new opportunities. News of his next role has yet to emerge.

In other recent developments, earlier this month Oncore IT, which provides IT managed services and cloud-based solutions, signed a three-year contract with London & Capital.

The contract involves supplying London & Capital with a public cloud-based backup solution to maximise data security and enhance its backup processes and procedures. Oncore IT is supplying 3 TB of online backup on its Asigra-based Cloud storage platform, with London & Capital moving away from a legacy tape solution which was managed in-house for core company data.

London & Capital manages some $3.3 billion for clients and employs 90 staff.