Schroders Personal Wealth, a new business aimed at helping more people in the UK with their investments and financial planning, was unveiled. The business is a joint venture between Schroders and Lloyds Banking Group. The team announced to lead the venture included James Rainbow, chief executive officer, Nick Allen, chief operating officer, Marcus Brookes, chief investment officer, James Cardew, chief marketing officer, Marietta Connery, head of human resources, Sarah Deaves, managing director, client relationships & wealth advice, Barrie Jackson, chief risk officer, David Lawrence, chief commercial officer, Colin Newham, chief internal auditor, and Joel Ripley, chief financial officer.

Vontobel Asset Management, part of Switzerland’s Vontobel, appointed Carl Vermassen to its emerging markets fixed income team as portfolio manager, joining Thierry Larose to manage the Sustainable Emerging Market Local Currency Bond Fund. Vermassen has over 25 years of industry experience. He joined from Degroof Petercam Asset Management in Brussels, where he was portfolio manager of the 5-star Morningstar rated Emerging Market Sustainable Bonds fund, a fund he managed together with Thierry Larose. Larose, who launched the first sustainable emerging market bond fund in 2013, joined Vontobel in 2018. 

Capzanine, a Paris-based asset manager, appointed Renaud Tourmente as head of business development. The role was a newly-created one. Tourmente has 20 years of relevant industry experience, recently at AXA IM where he co-led the global loans and private debt platform. Prior to this, he was at BNP Paribas and WestLB, mostly based in London, where he was head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa corporate and acquisition finance team and general manager of WestLB France. He was also on the boards of the AXA IM Structured Finance platform and of the Loan Market Association in London.

Independent family office Stonehage Fleming added a senior wealth planner to its London office: Julian Vydelingum. Vydelingum joined from AES International where he was an associate director based in Dubai. Before that, he was a senior wealth planner at Killik & Co. He is a Chartered Financial Planner and fellow of the Personal Finance Society.

Julius Baer International made three new hires to support business growth and regional expansion across the UK. Colin Aitken, a 30-year management veteran, joined from UBS Wealth Management UK, where he was co-founder and former head of UBS’ Scottish office for nine years. Prior to that he worked for Merrill Lynch International, Adam and Company, and Royal Bank of Scotland. He is based in Edinburgh. Mark Dooner joined from Tilney, where he was responsible for investment management and financial planning advice. Before that, Dooner was in senior roles at PwC Investment Advisory and Barclays Wealth & Investment Management. He is based in Manchester. Laurence Patmore joined from Barclays Wealth, bringing over 20 years’ industry experience.

US investment firm Franklin Templeton appointed Nicole Vettise as senior vice president and institutional portfolio manager. She works in the Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity investment team, reporting to its CIO Manraj Sekhon. Vettise is based in London. She has more than 20 years of investment industry experience, having worked across Asia and Europe. Vettise joined from BlackRock, where she managed product strategists for a range of equity products, including natural resources and thematic funds. Prior to this, she was institutional portfolio manager in emerging markets and natural resources at RBC Global Asset Management, and before that at JP Morgan Asset Management.

UK financial services firm Smith & Williamson appointed Allan Seldon as a business development director in a newly created role to oversee the firm’s growing fund management businesses. Seldon joined from NatWest, where he spent two-plus years as assistant director of business development in the trustee & depositary services team. Before that he held roles at Cofunds and Suffolk Life.

Maitland, the family office, administration and advisory firm, appointed David Hathorn as deputy chairman. Hathorn has been a non-executive director of Maitland International Holdings and chairman of its audit and risk committee since May 2017. Prior to this, Hathorn was CEO for 17 years of FTSE 100 packaging and paper giant Mondi, which is dual listed in London and Johannesburg.

Arbuthnot Latham appointed Chris Reah as head of regional offices as the private bank meets high demand for services outside London, with a particular focus on serving entrepreneurs and small to medium size business owners. Reporting to Reah, Andy Broughton was promoted to head the bank’s Manchester office. He joined Arbuthnot Latham’s South West office in 2014 following 11 years heading the Exeter office for Coutts. Since joining the firm, Reah has been accountable for developing the full regional proposition for clients across the South West.

UK investment manager Tilney appointed Frances Crozier as a business development manager for London and the South East. Crozier joined from Canada Life Investments, where she was an advisor in sales support. Prior to that she was intermediary support at Heartwood Investment Management and a financial planner at Saunderson House, both London-based firms.

Capital Asset Management recruited a new head of operations, Chirine Harb, who was previously at Aberdeen Standard Capital, the discretionary investment arm of the Standard Aberdeen Group. Prior to her time at Aberdeen Standard Capital, Harb worked at Octopus Investments.

National law firm Irwin Mitchell appointed Simon Owen to be its new national head of banking and finance. Owen joined from Trowers & Hamlins where he was a banking and finance partner and the head of real estate finance. He will be based in Irwin Mitchell’s London office.

TIME Investments, the UK firm which specialises in tax-efficient investment solutions and long-income property funds, appointed Briony Thomas as head of strategic partnerships. Thomas was previously at Colnvestor where she was head of sales and marketing, and prior to that at Ingenious Asset Management. 

Standard Chartered Private Bank appointed Ali Hammad as market head, private banking, Middle East and North Africa. Ali Hammad is based in London and reports to Stephen Atkinson, regional head, private banking Europe, Middle East and Africa. Ali Hammad joined from Coutts & Co where he was most recently head of Asia, Middle East and Africa. He has also worked at Credit Suisse and UBS in a number of senior roles based in Beirut, Dubai and London, focused on serving Middle Eastern clients. He has more than 30 years’ experience.

Martin Gilbert, one of the most prominent Scottish investment industry figures, whose Aberdeen Asset Management business merged with fellow UK-listed Standard Life two years ago, stepped down as co-chief executive of the enlarged group. Gilbert became vice chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen and stayed as an executive director of the board. Standard Life Aberdeen decided to change its CEO structure. Keith Skeoch was named CEO. Both Skeoch and Gilbert report to Sir Douglas Flint, chairman.

Liechtenstein-based VP Bank appointed Dr Thomas R Meier as the second vice president of the board of directors. He joined the board on a three-year term in April 2018, and became a member of the private bank’s nomination and compensation committee. Meier spent over three decades in international banking, with an emphasis on Asia, including more than 10 years as CEO Asia at Julius Baer. 

Aviva Investors, the global asset management, appointed industry veteran Paul LaCoursiere to the newly created role of global head of ESG research within its Global Responsible Investment team.

Based in London and reporting to responsible investing head Steve Waygood, LaCoursiere leads the corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) research process at Aviva Investors, including the integration and monitoring of ESG criteria within equities and credit. He jointly leads research efforts with Mirza Baig, global head of governance. LaCoursiere assumed the post after three years as global head of corporate research at the group. He was a fixed income portfolio manager at Aviva between 2010 and 2013 and re-joined the firm in 2014 following a year at Chicago Equity Partners.
Following the new role, 20-year veterans Oliver Judd and Kevin Gaydos were named co-heads of credit research, reporting to Colin Purdie, chief investment officer for the division.

UK advisor Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management appointed Neil Smith as investment director at the firm’s Worcester office. Smith has 15 years’ experience in discretionary investment management, with both private clients and intermediaries, and joined from four years at Seven Investment Management. Prior to that, he spent 10 years as a wealth manager at RBS.

UBS Asset Management appointed a new head of its real estate and private equity business. It named Joseph Azelby as head of real estate and private markets. Azelby leads a platform that operates in the US, Europe and Asia. Azelby is based in New York and reports to Ulrich Koerner, president of UBS Asset Management and UBS Group EMEA. Prior to this, Azelby worked at JP Morgan where he was CEO of its real estates global assets business. And before entering finance he was a former American footballer, playing as linebacker for the Buffalo Bills in 1984.

Citi Private Bank created a new “strategic segment” known as private capital – institutional solutions – and hired James Holder to head this group. Holder also leads the bank’s broader family office strategy. Holder has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry with a background covering private banking, mergers and acquisitions, and equity capital markets. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and joined the private bank in London in 2005. He was appointed head of Family Office EMEA in 2011 and global market manager for Northern Europe in 2012. As EMEA head of the family office area, Holder was part of the cross-ICG collaboration that launched markets direct access, and as general market manager for Northern Europe, Holder has launched new coverage teams for Germany, the Nordic region, Benelux and France as well as building out the family office coverage team in Switzerland.

T Bailey Asset Management appointed Jacqueline Lowe as non-executive chair. The position was newly created. Lowe has more than 30 years of experience with a number of firms. Lowe held numerous senior leadership positions and was an award-winning fund manager at Standard Life Investments with the Dynamic Distribution Fund. Following her appointment as head of UK wholesale in 2010, she led the development of the firm’s strategy in the wake of 2013’s Retail Distribution Review regulatory reforms, initially managing the “MyFolio” range of funds. She was also responsible for developing and executing the company’s “Accelerated Growth Plan” for its UK Mutual Fund business.

Raymond James Financial International, an affiliate of Carillon Tower Advisers, appointed Gerrit Van Gorp as head of sales/continental Europe, and Kevin Lloyd as head of UK/Ireland wholesale sales. Lloyd and Van Gorp expanded the capabilities in London of Carillon Tower Advisers. Lloyd Van Gorp report to Don Pepin, head of institutional sales. 

As employees of Raymond James Financial International, they will introduce clients to a line-up of products from Carillon Tower Advisers’ affiliates. Van Gorp brings nearly 25 years of experience, most recently with Fullerton Fund Management, where he was head of business development, overseeing all European markets. Prior to joining Fullerton Fund Management, Van Gorp worked briefly for Cairn Capital and was chief marketing officer for Pictet Asset Management. Lloyd has over 20 years of industry experience and previously worked at Allianz Global Investors, where his responsibilities included discretionary fund sales in London and raising the profile of the firm across a broad base of UK clients. Before that, he was a business development manager at Franklin Templeton Investments.

UK wealth management firm Tilney hired Graham Murphy and James Reekie as associate advisors. Both men joined the team in its Edinburgh office. Murphy worked in the financial services industry in a number of roles, including 10 years as a financial advisor at Bank of Scotland Bancassurance. Most recently he worked for Natwest Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland as a client portfolio executive and a file review manager respectively. Reekie joined from Royal London intermediary where he spent nearly four years in a number of roles.

Tenet Group appointed David Bartley as a national business manager. Bartley joined from LSL Property Services, where he spent six years as a regional director in the North. Prior to this, he spent 10 years with Sesame Bankhall Group.

Finantix, the financial software provider, appointed Marc Bussell as global marketing director. Bussell’s appointment follows the strategic investment in Finantix by Motive Partners. Bussell has over 20 years of professional services marketing experience, beginning his marketing career at management firm Celerant Consulting. Most recently, Bussell was director of marketing communications across Europe and Asia-Pacific for Capco, the global consulting firm. 

Legal & General Investment Management appointed Claire Aley as head of product and investments business management. Aley is responsible for overseeing LGIM’s global product strategy, development and management functions and supporting LGIM’s chief investment officer, Anton Eser, in managing the investment teams. She reports to Rhodri Mason, chief of staff.

Vistra, the trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, appointed Alan Brown as group chief executive and Geoff Weir as group chief financial officer. After former CEO Martin Crawford moved to be non-executive director last June, Vistra chairman Simon Hinshelwood acted as interim executive chairman while the firm hunted for a successor. Hinshelwood resumed his non-executive chairman role on the board after Brown took up the CEO role.

Brown and Weir are based in Hong Kong. Brown has worked in several industries and has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, and Asia, with a particularly strong China experience. He was most recently CEO of ASCO Group - an Aberdeen, Scotland-based global oil and gas services company. Prior to this, Brown was CEO at Rentokil Initial and was CFO at Imperial Chemical Industries (which was acquired by Akzo Nobel in 2007). He spent 25 years at Unilever in various roles in the UK and Europe, before heading up Unilever’s operations in China and Taiwan. Weir held a number of group CFO positions with global companies, including Scotts Philips Associates, Exridge, Digicel, and most recently Sinar Mas in Indonesia. He has extensive experience in strategy, planning, operations, M&A, compliance, and risk management in multiple sectors.

Vienna-based financial conglomerate Raiffeisen Bank International announced a number of management board changes to its network. Wilhelm Celeda appointed chief executive of Kathrein Privatbank AG; Harald Kröger was named CEO of Raiffeisen Centrobank AG; Heike Arbter was made a member of the managing board of Raiffeisen Centrobank, and Valerie Bruner was made head of RBI’s institutional clients division.

Wine investor Cult Wines appointed Frenchman Olivier Staub to the new post of investment director. Staub was a based at the group’s head office in London where he joined the global management team. Burgundy-born Staub, a long-time wine collector and investor, has spent 25 years as a fixed-income specialist, holding senior trading and portfolio management roles at JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort, Credit Agricole, BBVA and most recently the London Clearing House (LCH).

UK financial services firm Smith & Williamson appointed Jules Porter as a director of its investment management team in the Guildford office. Porter joined from Investec and worked in the industry for 25 years. He specialises in discretionary investment management for individuals, families and family trusts, as well as charities.

Aegon Asset Management added three hires. Rebecca Dreyfus and Stephanie Mooij joined AAM as senior engagement associates within the global Responsible Business and Public Affairs team. The third hire, Gerrit Ledderhof joined AAM as a responsible investment and public affairs manager. Dreyfus previously worked at Sustainalytics where latterly she was a client relations manager advising and supporting Nordic clients in developing and implementing ESG integration strategies across asset classes. Mooij joined the business after recently finishing a PhD on ESG integration at Oxford University.

She has worked as an equity portfolio analyst at Ownership Capital – a long term equity investor – with responsibilities for ESG and financial analysis of companies in various sectors. Ledderhof joined from the Canadian Ministry of the Environment in Toronto where he was a project manager and team lead in the Ministry’s Climate Programs Branch. His previous roles have included strategy manager at the Carbon Trust in London.

Brown Shipley appointed Nick Cringle as regional head for the North West. In the newly created post, he also leads the firm’s team in Manchester and reports to Guy Healey, head of private banking at the firm. 

Charles Stanley appointed John Porteous as group head of distribution. In this newly created role, he has group-wide responsibility for developing overall distribution strategy for services and products. Porteous reports to Paul Abberley, chief executive.

UBS appointed Schady Saeb as managing director and new desk head for Saudi Arabia. He is based at the bank’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He joined from Citibank, and brings more than 20 years’ experience covering the Saudi market.

JP Morgan Private Bank named Reto Demostene as managing director and senior banker for the team in Zurich. Demostene reports to Matteo Gianini, Swiss market manager for the global bank. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Demostene was a 26-year executive at UBS. Most recently, he served as MD and senior relationship manager at UBS Wealth Management with responsibility for the firm’s top-tier Swiss clients living in Switzerland. 

Italy's UniCredit appointed Alessandro Cummunale as its new head of the global family office for its corporate and investment banking business. Cummunale started his career with Banco di Napoli in 1991 before moving to Deutsche Bank in London in 1996, where he held senior positions including head of institutional sales for foreign exchange and commodities for Southern Europe and Middle East, and head of private institutional clients, followed by head of key client partners (UK team) in the bank’s wealth management division. Before joining UniCredit, he was head of key client partners for the EMEA region at Deutsche Bank Schweiz in Zurich.

Brewin Dolphin appointed William Quantrill as wealth director, based in the firm’s office in St James’s, London. He joined after 13 years at Kleinwort Hambros. In total, Quantrill has more than 25 years of industry experience, working with a variety of HNW and UHNW clients.

Credit Suisse UK appointed Dan Barnes as head of wealth planning. He took over from John Williams, who concentrates on client coverage and engagement. With more than 20 years' industry experience, Barnes previously worked at Barclays Wealth. He led the development of wealth planning divisions in London and across the UK at several specialist firms.

North America
TAG Associates, the multi-family office and RIA, appointed Bari Goldman as head of business development. Goldman reports to Jonathan Bergman, president. Goldman has 15 years of experience focused on client sales and marketing at financial firms, most recently as director, institutional sales at Cantor Fitzgerald. Her prior positions include sales and marketing to investment advisors at Alliance Bernstein, and client management at UBS Private Bank.

Mercer Global Advisors promoted Kara Duckworth, CFP® and CDFA®, to the post of managing director of client experience. This was a newly-created role and she is based at the Newport Beach office. Duckworth has been at the firm since 2017 as part of Duckworth Wealth Advisors. Mercer bought the firm that she and her father founded in 1998.

The Texas-based Perot family, renowned for business and for producing a US Presidency challenger, Ross Perot, appointed a senior hedge fund figure as its new investment chief. Boaz Sidikaro is president and CIO of Perot Investments, having previously been executive managing director at Och-Ziff Capital Management. He worked at that organization from August 1998 to March this year. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BSc in accounting and finance.

Bank of America Private Bank made two hires in Columbia, South Carolina. Gregg Frierson joined as the market sales executive for South Carolina, reporting to Kim Wilkerson, South Carolina president and market executive for the firm’s private bank. With more than 33 years with Bank of America, Frierson has extensive experience in credit and client relationships, having held leadership positions within the firm’s commercial, business, and global banking and markets teams. Frierson graduated from Wake Forest University and is active with the National Alumni Council and the Columbia Alumni Clubs. He serves on the Presbyterian College Board of Trustees, and previously served on the Claflin University Board of Trustees for 15 years. 

Lindsey Griffin was hired as a private client advisor, joining from the University of South Carolina where she served as assistant executive director of development and alumni relations. Prior to that, Griffin was the development director at Presbyterian College and the Governor’s School of Science and Mathematics.

Bill Woodson, a managing director working at Citi Private Bank, left the firm to move to Boston Private. He was joined by fellow colleague Edward Marshall, who also left Citi.

Woodson became executive vice president, head of wealth advisory and family offices services, a newly-created role where he reports to Anthony DeChellis chief executive. Woodson has more than 25 years of experience of working in financial services. This publication has published several of his white papers on family office issues and his role in thought leadership in this area has become well known. Prior to joining Citi Private Bank, Woodson held senior private banking and family office positions at Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch where, among other responsibilities, he ran a multi-family office (MFO) business and managed ultra-high net worth and family office clients. Woodson was also a founding member of myCFO, an integrated wealth management firm started by Silicon Valley technology executives.

Marshall joined Boston Private as a senior relationship manager and managing director responsible for leading business development of ultra-high net worth and family office relationships for the firm’s Private Banking, Wealth & Trust business. At Citi Private Bank he was a director in its global family office group. Before Citi, Marshall was a member of the UHNW and family office practice at Credit Suisse. He joined Credit Suisse from Booz Allen Hamilton where he was a member of its organization and strategy practice. Marshall began his career in the public sector working for the federal government in the United States and abroad.

Jeff Julien, chief financial officer of US-listed Raymond James Financial, the firm operating in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, is leaving the firm at the end of this year. Julien continued to serve as executive vice president of finance and as a senior advisor for a period of time to ensure that his responsibilities are smoothly transferred. His career at Raymond James began in 1983 after working as a CPA for Price Waterhouse in Tampa, Florida. (That firm subsequently became PricewaterhouseCoopers.) He is chairman of the board of Raymond James Bank and serves as a director for many of the firm’s other subsidiaries. 

Kestra Financial, the wealth management advisor platrform, added the Texas-based Gardner Wallace Financial Solutions business to its embrace. The advisors at the firm were Frances Gardner, Andrew Gardner and Patrick Wallace. Based in Addison, the firm serves businesses, individuals, and families. 

Boston-based wealth managers John Mara and Shaun Feldeisen joined Bleakley Financial Group, which is supported by Private Advisor Group. Between them, the advisors oversee about $200 million of client brokerage, advisory and retirement plan assets. Previously, they worked at Northwestern Mutual Investment Services.

Carole Wentz was appointed division executive for Merrill’s Texas Mountain South division. Wentz began her career as a financial advisor in Dallas, and has been in a number of leadership roles for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management during the last 24 years, most recently serving as market executive for Greater Orange County. She joined the leadership team of Andy Sieg.

Argent Trust Company appointed David Thibodeaux and Dominique Richard as trust officers. Both are based in Baton Rouge and report to Argent Trust’s Louisiana market president Gary Moore. Thibodeaux spent the past 18 years as vice president and trust officer with JP Morgan Private Bank. Richard began her career in trust management after graduating from Louisiana State University. She spent the past 11 years as an associate trust and trust administrator with JP Morgan Private Bank in Baton Rouge where she was responsible for providing direction and support to more than 200 fiduciary client relationships.

Baird added Justin Nichols, director, financial advisor, to its Houston-Memorial wealth management office. He was joined by Angela Wingfield, client specialist. Nichols, an industry veteran, brought more than 20 years of experience to Baird. He is a graduate of University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 

Advisors Lincoln Kopetski and Joe Cilley aligned with Triad Financial Strategies, a firm that is supported by investment advisory and RIA house LPL Financial. The two advisors previously worked at US Bancorp Investments.

Raymond James appointed financial advisors Gregory Stevens and Vince Spires to join Raymond James & Associates, in Ocala, Florida. The advisor duo operate as Spires & Stevens Wealth Management of Raymond James and joined from Morgan Stanley, where they previously managed approximately $240 million in client assets. Another joiner was Yvonne Emeric, senior registered client service associate.

Stevens has more than 21 years of financial services experience. He began his career as an advisor at Smith Barney, where he spent 11 years. After Smith Barney’s acquisition by Morgan Stanley, he remained with the firm for nine additional years before joining Raymond James in 2019. Stevens earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida.

Spires, senior vice president, wealth management, began his financial services career in 2000. Prior to joining Raymond James, he spent the entirety of his career as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley. Spires studied business management at the College of Central Florida. Raymond James also appointed Tavis McCourt as its first institutional equity strategist. McCourt, a managing director, focuses on developing thematic, market and macro-oriented research. McCourt returned to Raymond James after having spent the past year as an investment analyst with 12th Street Asset Management in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, he spent more than 20 years as a senior equity research analyst covering communications technology stocks, first with Morgan Keegan, then with Raymond James, when the firm acquired Morgan Keegan.

Raymond James Financial appointed Greg Bruce as senior vice president and head of its investment advisors division. Prior to this role, Bruce was at Charles Schwab Advisor Services, where he was most recently managing director of the Great Lakes Region.

Alex Brown, a division of Raymond James, appointed client advisor Elana Milianta, in its Greenwich, Connecticut office. Milianta joined Alex Brown from Wells Fargo Advisors, where she previously managed more than $190 million in client assets. Also joining her at Raymond James is Daniel Rupp, practice business coordinator. 

Argent Trust Company appointed Bridget Van Gansbeke as vice president and trust administrative officer at the firm’s Louisville office. Van Gansbeke joined Argent in 2015 and served clients in the financial and legal communities for more than 15 years, acting as trust administrator for JP Morgan in Louisville before joining Argent. She reports to Nicole Jacobsen-Nally, market president and senior officer for Argent Trust Company in Louisville. 

US-based law firm Butler Snow, which covers areas including private client work, elected Christopher R Maddux to succeed Donald Clark as chair, with effect from January 1, 2020. Clark served as chair from 2006. Maddux had been chair of Butler Snow’s business department and served on the executive committee from 2016-2018. Maddux is a member of the American, Tennessee and Capital Area Bar Associations, The Mississippi Bar and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School.

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, announced a raft of promotions for 2019, including five new managing directors: Rich Campbell, Minjun Chung, Edward Holdsworth, Craig MacDonald, and Laura Thaxter; as well as eight new principals and three senior vice presidents. 

Rockefeller Capital Management appointed former Bank of America Merrill Lynch senior figure Joe Ferlisi as its chief information officer. With more than 20 years of technology leadership roles, Ferlisi was most recently CTO for global banking and markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which he joined in 2016.

Argent Trust Company appointed Jon Daubert as senior vice president and trust officer in its San Antonio office. Daubert reports to Reid Harrell, regional executive and chief fiduciary officer for Argent Trust Company. Daubert has more than 17 years of estate planning and trust banking experience with Frost Bank in San Antonio. He spent his early career in law, practising as an estate, tax and probate attorney. A San Antonio native, Daubert is a former board member of the San Antonio Estate Planners Council and the Alamo Kiwanis Club.

Dynasty Financial Partners has named industry veteran, Angela Gingras, as director of operations. Based in their new office, she reports to Joe Dursi, director of investments. Prior to this, she worked at Raymond James.

Asia-Pacific
Indosuez Wealth Management, the global wealth management brand of Crédit Agricole group, appointed Romain Jérome as chief digital officer. He reports to Jacques Prost, chief executive of Indosuez Wealth Management group. The role is a new one for the firm. Jérome began his career at BNP Paribas CIB in 1995 in the Capital Markets Department as a quantitative analyst. In 2000, he became CTO of Banque Directe, BNP Paribas' online bank. He then took over as COO of BNP Paribas, CIB’s Prime Brokerage business. Jérome joined Crédit Agricole CIB in 2005 to develop the Prime Fund Services activity. In 2006, he moved to the IT Capital Markets Department to successively manage IT commodity derivatives, then IT equity derivatives in London and Paris. He was made co-head of organisation and transformation in 2010 and he has been director of Digital Transformation & Innovation at Crédit Agricole CIB since 2016.

UBS restructured its wealth management operations in the Asia-Pacific region. Amy Lo, co-head of wealth management Asia-Pacific, and August Hatecke, co-head of wealth management, Asia-Pacific, set out organisational changes. The members of the WM APAC management committee report to Lo and Hatecke:

Adeline Chien, current regional market manager (RMM) Hong Kong Domestic, became head of WM Hong Kong Domestic; David Man, current RMM Taiwan International became, head of is Taiwan International; Frank Niedermann, current RMM APAC Switzerland, became head of WM APAC Switzerland, and LH Koh, current RMM Hong Kong Domestic & Japan, became head of WM China International.

The firm also named Marina Lui as head of WM China (currently RMM China), overseeing both China Domestic and China International. LH Koh has an additional reporting line to Marina Lui in her role as Head of WM China. In addition, Lui was also appointed as WM Hong Kong location head.

Raymond Ang, current head ultra-high net worth clients for Southeast Asia, was appointed head of WM Southeast Asia. Ang was appointed as WM Singapore location head. Dino Rinaldi, current operating head for wealth management in Singapore, succeeded Ang as head of UHNW Southeast Asia and reports to Ravi Raju.

The Fry Group, which focuses on serving British expats, appointed Anna Warren as head of tax for Asia - she is based in Hong Kong.

Warren began her training at KPMG in the Channel Islands, working in the audit practice for three years prior to joining their private client tax department. She transferred to London in 2012 to specialise in providing UK tax planning advice to high net worth individuals. She is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a Chartered Accountant (ACA).  In addition, Charlie Buxton joined The Fry Group in Hong Kong as a portfolio manager. Buxton was previously an investment manager at Hurley Partners in London, having worked as an investment manager at Investec Private Bank. He started his career at Tilney Bestinvest.

Bank of Singapore appointed Richard Hu, who has more than 20 years of experience in the region, as market head for Greater China. In this newly-create role, he leads a team of relationship managers and is based in Hong Kong.

Hu reports directly to Derrick Tan, chief executive of Bank of Singapore Hong Kong branch and global market head for Greater China and North Asia. Prior to this, Hu worked at Avenue Asset Management, a firm started in 2016. In his role as MD and founding partner, he started a venture capital fund, a real estate fund and a fixed income fund. Prior to that, he was the group head of the Greater China market at Julius Baer, and the business head of North Asia and market head for the China and Taiwan onshore and offshore team at HSBC Private Banking. He has also worked at Credit Suisse, UBS Wealth Management and Citi Private Bank where he held key leadership positions in the Greater China region.

Singapore-based Tembusu Partners Pte appointed Lim Ming Yan, former chief executive of property giant Capitaland, as chairman of its China Advisory Board.

Bank of Asia (BVI), claiming to be one of the world’s first fully digital cross-border banks, appointed a permanent president, taking the helm after the interim holder of the post returned to Hong Kong. It named Dr Peter Reichenstein, who is based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. He replaced Wayne Yang, who continues as managing director and head of wealth management at BOA Financial Group.
 
Dr Reichenstein works with Carson Wen, founder and chairman of Bank of Asia, and the board to execute the Bank’s strategy in providing core banking services to offshore companies, trusts, and high net worth individuals from around the world. He spent more than 10 years at VP Bank and Trust Company (BVI), where he was chief executive and managing director responsible for growing the bank’s operations in the BVI. Prior to this, he worked at UBS Private Bank, Financial Planning & Wealth Management International.  A former President of the BVI Bankers’ Association, he has also been a member of the Economic Advisory Committee to the Premier and Minister of Finance in the BVI.

DBS appointed Lee Woon Shiu as the regional head of wealth planning, family office and insurance solutions for its private bank. Lee reports to Sim S Lim, group head of consumer banking and wealth management, DBS Bank.

Lee was most recently head of wealth planning, trust and insurance at Bank of Singapore. Since joining the bank in 2004, he led the set-up of the trust marketing division in Asia and was instrumental in helping to penetrate new trust markets in Greater China, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, the Middle East and Africa. He is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in advising numerous ultra-high net worth families in Asia-Pacific on the strategic structuring of their estate and succession concerns, and engaging multi-generational families on the establishment and implementation of family governance and philanthropy strategies.

Martin Gilbert, one of the most prominent Scottish investment industry figures, whose Aberdeen Asset Management business merged with fellow UK-listed Standard Life two years ago, stepped down as co-chief executive of the enlarged group. Gilbert became vice chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen and remained as an executive director of the board. The changes came as Standard Life Aberdeen, as the firm is now called, decided to change its CEO structure. Keith Skeoch was named CEO. Both Skeoch and Gilbert report to Sir Douglas Flint, chairman. SLA operates in regions including Asia.

Henley & Partners, the firm involved in what is dubbed the “golden visa” market, expanded into Australia, adding to its Pacific Rim presence. It opened an office in Melbourne and hired two figures: Tony Le Nevez, director of Henley & Partners Australia, and Jacky Poh, deputy head of Henley & Partners Singapore.

Le Nevez has more than 35 years’ experience in the migration services industry. Prior to his latest role, he worked for the Australian Department of Immigration in Canberra, and at Australia’s Embassies in Bangkok, Athens and Vienna where he was a senior policy advisor and First Secretary. He joined the private sector in 2006 and is a member of the Investment Migration Council. Poh spent ten years working in wealth management. At Henley & Partners, he works with the managing partner to help operations of the Singapore office. He is also focused on establishing and maintaining relationships with key clients and stakeholders to drive business growth, with an emphasis on progressive Southeast Asian markets.  

VP Bank appointed Dr Thomas R Meier as the second vice president of the board of directors. He joined the board on a three-year term in April 2018, and in his new role he became a member of the private bank’s nomination and compensation committee. Meier spent over three decades in international banking, with an emphasis on Asia, including more than 10 years as CEO Asia at Julius Baer.

Credit Suisse has appointed Josephine Kee Hong S Yap as its chief representative in the Philippines, signalling the Swiss bank’s wealth management push in the country.

Yap will be based in Manila and will report to Christian Senn, market group head for the Philippines, Credit Suisse Private Banking Asia-Pacific. The bank created the representative office for its wealth management business in April last year after winning a licence from the Securities and Exchange Commission and gaining regulatory approval from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

Yap has almost three decades of experience in the Philippines financial services industry. She joined Credit Suisse from Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company where she was most recently the head of Private Wealth Countryside, financial market sector, leading a team of senior relationship managers with respective regional coverage across the Philippines. Throughout her career at Metrobank, Josephine had extensive experience in bank branch management and operations.

UBS Asset Management appointed a new head of its real estate and private equity business. It named Joseph Azelby as head of real estate and private markets. Azelby leads a platform that operates in the US, Europe and Asia. Azelby is based in New York and reports to Ulrich Koerner, president of UBS Asset Management and UBS Group EMEA. Prior to this, Azelby worked at JP Morgan where he was CEO of its real estates global assets business. And before entering finance, he was a former American footballer, playing as linebacker for the Buffalo Bills in 1984.

He took over from Thomas Wels who was named divisional vice chairman for UBS Asset Management. (Wels had been in the post from December 2012.)

The president and chief executive of Asian investments giant Nikko Asset Management, Takumi Shibata, stepped down after six years in the posts. Shibata joined the firm in July 2013 as the executive chairman. He became president and chief executive in January 2014. Hideo Abe and Junichi Sayato was appointed as representative directors and co-chief executives.  Abe also holds the title of president and Sayato the title of chairman.

Julius Baer appointed Raymond Li as group head for Greater China, a newly-created role by the Zurich-listed private banking group. Li reports to David Shick, head of private banking for Greater China. Prior to this, Li acquired more than 20 years of experience in private banking. He was most recently market head for Hong Kong at Standard Chartered Private Bank, a position held since 2007. Prior to that, he held senior wealth management posts at Barclays Private Bank and Lloyds Bank.

HSBC Private Banking named two senior figures for its Asia business. Gabriel Tam was appointed regional head of UHNW Solutions, Asia, with responsibility for connecting “sophisticated clients” with the product capability of both HSBC’s Private Banking and Global Banking and Markets product teams. Tam has more than 17 years of financial markets experience.

Tam was most recently the Asia-Pacific head of equity derivatives distribution at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, responsible for sales of flow and structured Asian equity derivatives to institutional clients globally. Prior to that, Tam was Asia-Pacific head of convertible bonds distribution at BAML.

It also appointed Erik Bergqvist as head of UHNW segment management, to develop and deliver the private bank’s proposition. Bergqvist and a new UHNW servicing team supports UHNW clients across Asia-Pacific. Bergqvist, who was previously at Julius Baer and UBS, brings more than 17 years of financial services and wealth management experience.

AMP Capital appointed Debbie Alliston as chief investment officer in the Australia-listed firm’s multi-asset group. Reporting to Simon Warner, AMP Capital global head of public markets, Alliston is responsible for a range of teams. Alliston is the firm’s head of multi-asset portfolio management and she is portfolio manager for AMP’s default Corporate Super offerings. Prior to joining AMP Capital, she worked at Apostle Asset Management as an investment director since 2007, where she was responsible for the management of the ongoing affiliate programme, including investment due diligence and manager selection and review.

MSCI, the provider of indices and portfolio analytics, appointed Beng Eu Lim as head of South Asia client coverage. Based in Singapore, Lim is responsible for strengthening MSCI’s presence in South Asia, specifically in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region and India, while also enhancing coverage of leading asset owners and other clients. He reports to Jack Lin, head of APAC client coverage, who joined MSCI in May 2018.

Lim joined MSCI from Bento Invest, a business-to-business robo-advisor and digital wealth technology provider, where he served as the head of institutional client engagement. In previous roles, Lim managed the Asia asset owner and insurance sector sales for State Street Bank and Trust in Singapore.

Peter Lam, a former senior figure at the private banking arm of Standard Chartered, joined the Asia team of BNP Paribas. Lam was managing director and deputy market head at StanChart, a firm he joined in 2017 from HSBC Private Bank. Previously, he had worked at UBS and Citigroup.

Vistra, the trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, appointed Alan Brown as group chief executive and Geoff Weir as group chief financial officer. After former CEO Martin Crawford moved to be non-executive director last June, Vistra chairman Simon Hinshelwood was acting as interim executive chairman while the firm hunted for a successor. Hinshelwood resumed his non-executive chairman role. Geoff Weir is now Vistra’s new chief financial officer following the departure of former CFO Lawrence Tsang in 2018.

Brown and Weir are based in Hong Kong. Brown has worked in several industries and has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, and Asia, and has particularly strong China experience. Most recently, he was CEO of ASCO Group - an Aberdeen, Scotland-based global oil and gas services company. Weir has held a number of group CFO positions with global companies, including Scotts Philips Associates, Exridge, Digicel, and most recently Sinar Mas in Indonesia. He has extensive experience in strategy, planning, operations, M&A, compliance, and risk management in multiple sectors.

US-based investments house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, aka KKR, appointed a head of strategy and business development for the Asia-Pacific region - Kate Richdale.

Richdale works with KKR’s senior leadership team in Asia to help the firm expand its platform across business and new investment strategies. She joined KKR from Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, where she was chairman of investment banking in Asia Ex-Japan. Prior to that, Richdale was the co-head of the firm’s investment banking division in Asia Ex-Japan. Previously, she worked at Morgan Stanley.

Singapore’s United Overseas Bank appointed a new senior vice president as part of its efforts to scrutinise regional funds. The appointee was Ernst Low, formerly of AXA Insurance Singapore where he had been head of investment and wealth management.