The latest moves and appointments in the UK, rest of Europe, the Middle East and other select international locations.

Bellecapital
UK/Switzerland-based wealth management firm Bellecapital has tapped a former chief executive of Deutsche Bank UK, Sophie Hutcherson, as an independent board member. It has also named Sarah Watters as head of UK portfolio management.

Watters started her career at JP Morgan Asset Management and continued at BP Investment Management where she was head of equities and a member of the senior leadership team. 

Hutcherson, who has had a career of more than three decades in the banking sector, has served in executive roles for Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, Liberum and Lehman Brothers.  

BRI
BRI Wealth Management, the UK firm, has appointed Jordan Laight as a financial planning “paraplanner.”

Laight will work with financial planners, assisting with drafting financial planning reports, advising clients on their investments based on objectives, risk profile and time horizon. Based in Meriden, Warwickshire, she will report to Nick Sinclair-Wilson, Chartered Financial Planner.

Before this, Laight served in a similar role at a wealth management firm in the West Midlands, and worked as an executive administrator at an independent financial advisor firm.

Artorius
Wealth advisory firm Artorius has named former UBS senior figure Vanda Cox as business development director. 

Having worked at EQ investors, and previously Broadstone Corporate Benefits Limited, Cox has extensive experience within the financial services sector, including private client advice and planning, corporate pensions and employee benefits (including health, risk and flexible benefits), and wealth management.

Prior to Broadstone, Cox was executive director at UBS Wealth Management.