Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Close Brothers Asset Management, Others

Editorial Staff

7 July 2020

Close Brothers Asset Management
has promoted Miranda Beacham and added two other members of its responsible investment team.

Beacham has been appointed as senior responsible investment manager, leading Aegon Asset Management’s Edinburgh-based responsible investment specialists. Beacham has worked at Kames Capital, soon to become Aegon Asset Management, since 1995 and co-founded the UK responsible investment team.

Retno Kusumaningtyas has also joined the firm as a senior responsible investment associate, based in The Hague. Kusumaningtyas joins from an Amsterdam-based consultancy firm Profundo Research and Advice. Both Beacham and Kusumaningtyas will report to Brunno Maradei, global head of responsible investment.

Based in Edinburgh, Georgina Laird has also joined the business as a sustainable investment analyst, reporting to Beacham. Laird joins from Uniting Ethical Investors in Australia, where she was ethics and impact manager.