Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - UBS WM, AMP Capital, Others

Editorial Staff

24 July 2018

Franklin Templeton Investments
Global asset manager has appointed Andrew Ness as a portfolio manager of Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity (FTEME).

Ness will join the firm on 17 September, and will be part of the Global Emerging Markets (GEM) investment team. He will be a portfolio manager for the London Stock Exchange-listed Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT), working alongside TEMIT lead portfolio manager Chetan Sehgal, who continues to serve as director of portfolio management for GEM and small cap strategies for FTEME.

He will be named as a portfolio manager of additional global emerging markets strategies, over time. Ness will be based in Edinburgh and will report to Manraj Sekhon, chief investment officer for FTEME.

Prior to Franklin Templeton, he was at Martin Currie, where he was a senior member of its global emerging markets equity team. Previously, he held similar roles for Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) and Deutsche Asset Management, having begun his investment career at Murray Johnstone in 1994.

AMP Capital
Global investment manager has appointed Paul Sloane as portfolio manager of its global emerging markets (“GEMs”) team

Sloane previously worked at Martin Currie for 14 years, most recently as co-manager of Martin Currie’s global alpha strategy. He joins on 13 August.

UBS Wealth Management
Swiss banking group has confirmed Jakob Stott will retire from his role in the bank's wealth management operation at the end of the year.

Stott was most recently a vice president in the wealth management division, after having previously been the head of wealth management for Europe for several years.