Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Tilney, Janus Henderson

Editorial Staff

25 April 2019

Tilney
, the UK wealth management firm with £24.4 billion ($31.6 billion) of assets under management, has appointed Bennedetta Peto as chief people officer. Peto will join the group in May and be based in London.

Reporting to CEO Chris Woodhouse, Peto is responsible for the group’s human resource department, including learning and development, talent, reward and recruitment functions. She will also sit on the Tilney Executive Committee.

Prior to this, Peto worked at Cabot Credit Management (CCM) where she was responsible for the people agenda across the group, overseeing employee engagement, people change management, human resources and learning and development.

Janus Henderson
has appointed Alex Barr to join its UK multi-asset and alternatives team in London. He will report to Paul O’Connor, head of Multi-Asset Investments and work alongside James de Bunsen and Peter Webster, as co-manager on a number of multi-asset alternatives funds, including the Henderson Alternative Strategies Trust plc, on which Barr will be a senior portfolio manager alongside James de Bunsen and Peter Webster.

Barr joins from Aberdeen Standard Investments, where he was global head of private markets and real estate investment oversight. Alex has 26 years of experience in financial markets, specialising in alternative assets. Previously, Barr was head of private equity at Aberdeen Asset Management and lead manager of Aberdeen Private Equity Fund.