Barrie will be responsible for developing and implementing a US wholesale and institutional distribution strategy, and will support CEO Gavin Rochussen in expanding Polar's North American business.

“We believe that the US gives us an enormous opportunity to offer our funds to the institutional community,"  CEO Rochussen said. Barrie brings the "requisite experience and will drive our product distribution and business development in this important market.”

Barrie joins Polar Capital after a decade at Martin Currie, where he was most recently head of US wealth management sales. Before that he spent 12 years in a number of senior roles at Henderson Global Investors.

The London-based firm, founded in 2001, maintains offices in Tokyo, Connecticut, Jersey, Edinburgh, Shanghai and Paris, and manages a combined AuM of £14.7 billion ($18.5 billion) as of September 2018.

Tilney
Making further inroads into Scotland, has appointed Helen Villiers as investment manager. Based at YFM’s London office, Villiers will concentrate on supporting YFM’s new investment activity.

 Villiers, who is a qualified chartered accountant, joins from Grant Thornton’s corporate finance team in London, where she worked with management teams and entrepreneurs on a range of transactions, primarily in the human capital and technology, media and telecoms sectors.