The latest moves in wealth management across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Mediolanum Asset Management 
Mediolanum Asset Management (MAML), the Irish asset management company of the Mediolanum Banking Group, has appointed Astrid Schilo as multi-asset strategist and Inma Conde as head of manager research, in Dublin. 

Schilo has over 15 years’ experience of financial markets' research and forecasting policy. Before joining MAML, she was research senior principal at Accenture Research, where she was involved in an artificial intelligence project
 
Conde joins from Minnesota Philanthropy Partner, a community foundation in the US – where she held the position of director of investments. 

HSBC Private Bank
HSBC Private Bank has confirmed that business area head of Switzerland, Roger Lehmann, is leaving the bank. It also confirmed that Peter Damisch, managing director and business head in Zurich, is leaving his current role. The firm has not confirmed what role he will take on if he stays at the bank.

Lehmann was also on the bank’s executive committee and was based in Zurich. Damisch joined the firm five years ago from the Boston Consulting Group, where he was a partner and managing director.

The firm did not elaborate on the departures from HSBC PB.

Aberdeen Standard Investments
'Aberdeen Standard Investments, the global asset manager, has appointed André Haubensack as head of distribution - Switzerland. This appointment follows the merger between Standard Life Aberdeen and Aberdeen Asset Management last year.

Haubensack is based in Zurich and reports to Rik Brouwer, head of European distribution at Aberdeen Standard Investments. The company said in a statement that it is due to announce two new appointments over the coming weeks.

Haubensack has worked in the Swiss investment market for over 18 years. Previously he was a director with New Star Asset Management and before that Credit Suisse. He later joined Standard Life Investments in 2014 through the acquisition of Ignis Asset Management.

Quilter
Quilter, UK wealth management group, has appointed Paul Matthews and Suresh Kana as independent non-executive directors. Matthews has also been appointed as a non-executive director of Intrinsic Financial Services Limited, a subsidiary of the company, which forms part of the Advice and Wealth Management segment.

Matthews has worked in the savings and pensions industry for over four decades. Until he retired from full-time executive roles, he worked at Standard Life in various roles between 1989 and 2017, as a group executive director, chief executive UK and Europe, and chairman of Standard Life Wealth. 

Kana spent over three decades working in various roles at PwC, most recently as CEO and territory senior partner of PwC Africa.

Arbuthnot Latham
UK financial services firm Arbuthnot Banking Group has announced the retirement of Paul Lynam as a director of its board, taking immediate effect.

He has been a director of ABG since 2010, when he joined the group to be chief executive of Secure Trust Bank.