The latest moves and appointments for wealth management roles in the UK, other parts of Europe, the Middle East and select international locations.

Aviva Investors
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has appointed Eoin Rooney as director of digital channels and Serena Burton as strategic partners director within the firm’s UK wealth team. They will both be based in London.

Rooney will report to Smera Ashraf, who has recently been promoted to the newly-created role of head of EMEA wealth. (Previously, Ashraf led the firm’s UK wealth team.) Rooney will be responsible for defining the strategy and leading distribution of the firm’s investment products across the UK digital wealth market.

Rooney, who has more than a decade of experience within the investment sector, spent several years at Vanguard, working across the D2C offer and strategy within the firm’s UK Personal Investor business. He also served as chief of staff to both the head of Europe and the head of retail, supporting strategic initiatives and regional leadership priorities.

Burton, who has had more than a decade of experience within the investment sector, will report to Hayley Randall, head of UK advisory distribution. Burton’s remit will be to oversee the firm’s strategic partnerships within the UK IFA channel. She also joins the firm from Vanguard, where she held varying positions, most recently as business development manager, supporting the UK distribution intermediary team. Prior to Vanguard, Burton was chief of staff to the head of UK Personal Investor (UKPI).

These two appointments – bolstering Aviva’s UK wealth space – follow the appointment of James Southern, business development director, earlier this month.

Global X ETFs Europe
Global X ETFs Europe, a global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has appointed Gea Blumberg as head of business development and co-head of Global X ETFs Europe. She will serve alongside chief operating officer and co-head of Global X ETFs Europe, George Taylor, based in London.

Blumberg and Taylor will share responsibility for shaping the business’ strategic direction to meet the needs of existing and future clients. In addition, she will lead teams across sales, marketing, public relations, and investment strategy. She will be based in Germany.

Blumberg, who has more than 15 years of experience in European ETFs, asset management, and private banking, previouisly led business and sales strategy in Europe for WisdomTree. Earlier in her career, Blumberg worked at Thomson Reuters in Munich and Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien in Vienna. She holds a BA in business administration and a BA in psychology from Webster University in Vienna.

Global X is a member of Mirae Asset Financial Group, a prominent global player in financial services, with more than $754.5 billion in assets under management worldwide. Mirae Asset has an extensive global ETF platform ranging across the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam with over $200 billion in assets under management.