Guardian Wealth Management
Mark Langley, a former senior wealth manager with deVere in the UK and Abu Dhabi, has joined Guardian Wealth Management USA.
Based in Miami, Florida, Langley had been with deVere since 2012 where he specialised in life insurance and pensions.
Zurich
Mark Peters, currently Zurich’s head of market management for wealth, will become head of Oak Underwriting following its acquisition by Zurich
Oak managing director Mark Coffey has left to take up a new position outside of the business said Zurich
Peters will report to Paul Glasper, Zurich’s head of specialist retail.
Lloyd’s of London
Dame Inga Beale, the first woman to lead Lloyd’s of London, is stepping down as chief executive.
She will leave her post next year and Lloyd’s said that it had begun a search for her successor.
Dame Inga has led the insurance and reinsurance market since 2014.
Tilney
Tilney has appointed James Diack as a financial planner. Diack will join the team in the company’s Glasgow office.
Diack has been advising clients on their financial affairs for over 25 years and joins from the Bank of Scotland where he has spent the past four years as a private banking and advice manager covering the west and southern Scotland.
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered has appointed Vishu Ramachandran as its group head of retail banking.
Ramachandran joined Stan Chart in 1987 and has headed the bank’s retail businesses in the Middle East, south Asia, Pakistan and Africa.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed Brendan Walsh as senior vice president portfolio manager, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions (FTMAS).
Starting 8 October 2018, Walsh will lead the development of the firm’s multi-asset capabilities in the UK.
He will be based in London and report to Thomas Nelson, senior vice president director of portfolio management, FTMAS.
Walsh joins from Aviva Investors where he was a multi-asset fund manager.
GAM
GAM Investments has hired Markus Heider as investment manager to join its emerging markets fixed income team, based in London.
Heider joins from Deutsche Bank in London, where he was global head of inflation research.
Nikko Asset Management
Nikko Asset Management has swooped on a Shenzhen and Hong Kong team led by Eng Teck Tan, senior portfolio manager, to join its China Equity capability.
The “All China” team of six is will be an extension of Nikko’s Asian Equity teams, housed in Singapore.
Tan, who reports to Peter Sartori, head of Asian equity at Nikko AM, will split his time between Singapore, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and is supported by three other portfolio managers based in Hong Kong and two analysts in Shenzhen.
DNCA Finance
Natixis affiliate DNCA has appointed Léa Dunand-Chatellet to lead its new responsible investment department.
Dunand-Chatellet, is a member of various committees on the Paris financial market. She teaches courses on responsible investment and co-authored SRI and Responsible Investment.
She started her career in 2005 in Oddo Securities’ extra-financial research department, and then became portfolio manager and head of ESG research at Sycomore Asset Management in 2010. She spent five years at the company, setting up and managing a range of SRI funds. In 2015, she joined Mirova as equity chief investment officer.
Van Eck
Van Eck has appointed Martijn Rozemuller as its European head.
Rozemuller was previously managing director of Dutch ETF provider Think ETFs, which was acquired by VanEck at the beginning of the year.
As part of his role, Rozemuller will also join Van Eck’s European board of operations, together with his colleague and co-founder of Think ETFs Gijs Koning, and will report directly to chief executive Jan van Eck, based in New York.
Sarona Asset Management
Dirk de Vlaam is to join frontier and emerging market-focused fund of funds and private equity house Sarona Asset Management as head of European investment relations and business development.
De Vlaam is a co-founder of investment comparison site Advies-Check and joins from Triple Jump.
He has also held marketing roles for Franklin Templeton and ABN Amro Private banking in the Netherlands.
