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Who's Moving Where in Wealth Management? Smith & Williamson, Aegon, Brown Shipley, Others

Editorial Staff

6 March 2019

Smith & Williamson
UK financial services firm  has appointed John Porteous as group head of distribution.  In this newly created role, he will have group-wide responsibility for developing overall distribution strategy for services and products, in order to generate business flows and market presence across all areas of the business, as well as inputting into overall proposition development and evolution.

Porteous reports to Paul Abberley, chief executive. 

In a career spanning more than 25 years, Porteous has held a number of senior roles in the financial planning and wealth management sector. He is both a Chartered Fellow of the Institute for Securities and Investment and a Chartered Financial Planner.