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

Baillie Gifford
Baillie Gifford, a global investment management partnership, has appointed Arthur Milson as a co-manager of its £631 million ($768 million) Baillie Gifford High Yield Bond Fund, joining existing managers Robert Baltzer and Lucy Isles on the fund, starting immediately. 

Milson joined Baillie Gifford in 2022 as an investment manager in the credit team. Prior to joining the firm, he spent 16 years managing high yield funds at abrdn, the firm said in a statement.

The Baillie Gifford High Yield Bond Fund aims to produce a combination of income and capital growth by investing in high yield bonds. 

OECD 
Manal Corwin has been appointed as director of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Centre for Tax Policy and Administration starting in April.

She will lead the work of the centre across all areas, including the two-pillar solution to the tax challenges of digitalisation, the base erosion and profit-shifting project, the tax transparency agenda, and the centre’s participation in the OECD’s new inclusive forum on carbon mitigation approaches.

Corwin, a US national, is well known in the international tax community, the organisation said in a statement. Having held senior tax policy positions in two separate US administrations and previously served as a delegate and then vice chair of the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs and as delegate to the Global Forum on Tax and Transparency, Corwin is suited for this position, the OECD continued.

With over 30 years of experience, she brings expertise in the area of international tax policy, rules and standards to the organisation. She served twice in the Office of Tax Policy in the US Department of Treasury including serving as deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs. 

Currently, Corwin is partner-in-charge of the National Tax Office and lead director of the board of directors for KPMG in the United States, the firm continued. In an earlier phase of her career, she practised as an attorney specialising in international tax law.

Corwin's appointment will ensure the continuation of the centre’s important work following the recent departure of Pascal Saint-Amans as director of CTPA after 12 years in the role, and the statutory retirement of former deputy director and current director of the centre, Grace Perez-Navarro on 31 March, the firm added.

The continuation of the centre’s work will also be supported by the appointment of David Bradbury, an Australian national, and Achim Pross, a German and British national, as deputy directors of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. 

Working with over 100 countries, the OECD is a global policy forum that promotes policies to preserve individual liberty and improve the economic and social wellbeing of people around the world.

Sacker & Partners
Sacker & Partners, a specialist law firm for pensions and retirement savings, has promoted Emma Martin to senior counsel.

Martin, who joined the firm in 2010 after qualifying, has a particular focus on defined contribution pension plans. In 2015 she completed a secondment to the legal team at TPR, where she advised on DC policy matters.