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Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Aberdeen Standard Capital
The latest senior roles in wealth and asset management from across Europe and the UK.
Aberdeen
Standard Capital has appointed ex-UBS employees Miranda
Richards and Ben Turner as senior charities portfolio
managers.
The managers will oversee discretionary portfolios on behalf of
UK charities and foundations. Both will report to Laurence Gagen,
head of charities, and will work with the charity team based
across ASC’s six offices.
Richards has more than 30 years’ investment experience and joins
from UBS where she was a
charity-focused client advisor and led the London team. Prior to
a career break, Richards was a fund manager at Henderson and
oversaw the management of a $1 billion Global Smaller Companies
Fund.
Turner also joins from UBS where he was senior client advisor for
charity and not-for-profit clients, specialising in sustainable
and impact investing. Prior to UBS, Turner had a similar role
with Barclays Private Bank. He has been investing for charities
for over 10 years.
Launched in 2008 Aberdeen Standard Capital (formally Standard
Life Wealth) has £7.1 billion ($7.44 billion) of assets under
management for private clients, charities, trust companies and
pension schemes (as at 30 June 2020). It has offices in London,
Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Jersey. The group is
the discretionary investment management arm of Aberdeen Standard
Investments.
