PEOPLE MOVES: Oak Group, Canada Life, Hansard

Guernsey-headquartered firm makes c-suite changes, as insurer bolsters sales technical team

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Oak Group

Chief risk and compliance officer Catherine Pigeon has been appointed to the board of directors of Oak Group.

Nicola Gott becomes chief commercial officer and retains her current role as Oak Jersey’s managing director.

John Doublard has been being promoted to the role of chief technology officer.

Canada Life

The insurer has recruited four members to its sales technical team, supporting advisers on a range of pensions, trusts and estate planning topics.

Stacey Love, technical manager, has joined Canada Life from Crowe, where she was tax and estate planning manager, and prior to that spent a number of years at Legal and General.

Julia Peake is a tax and estate planning specialist and joins from Sanlam, where she held roles as head of life company distribution and technical development manager.

Ross Whittle is a tax and estate planning specialist and joins from Quilter Cheviot, where he was regional business development manager based in Birmingham.

Liz Hardie is a tax and estate planning specialist and joins Canada Life from Technical Connection.

Hansard

The Isle of Man-headquartered insurer has named John Whitehouse as head of change management and IT, according to the firm’s Linkedin page.

Whitehouse was previously at RBS International as programme manager.

Mirabaud Group

The current limited partners of the group will be referred to as Equity Partners from 1 January 2022.

The partners are Etienne d’Arenberg, head of wealth management UK, Thiago Frazao, head of wealth management Latam,

Alain Baron, head of wealth management Mena, and Andrew Lake, head of credit and fixed income at Mirabaud Asset Management.

Anu Narula will become the fifth equity partner of the group and the second from its asset management business line.

Narula is head of global equities at Mirabaud Asset Management, Anu joined Mirabaud in 2013 and is a member of the Mirabaud Asset Management Executive Committee.

Fairway Group

Dominic Coyne joins the company as funds director.

He was previously at VG, where he began his career 20 years ago.

RWC Partners

The investment group has named Sunita Patel as head of marketing.

She was previously marketing director for M&G Investments.

PGIM Investments

The firm has hired Sashi Nambiar as managing director, head of south east Asia.

Nambiar joins from Wellington Management, where he was managing director, global wealth.

PGIM Investments has also hired Wincy Mak as head of marketing Hong Kong and southeast Asia.

Mak joined from Abrdn, where she was head of marketing for Hong Kong and China.

Robeco

The asset manager has named Ben Rowley as senior sales manager to its UK wholesale team.

He joins Robeco from Amundi Asset Management, where he was responsible for the distribution of their product range to wholesale clients in London.

Man GLG

The discretionary investment operation of Man Group has appointed Yohann Terry and Jann Breitenmoser as portfolio managers in the firm’s equity team.

Terry joins Man GLG from J Safra Sarasin Asset Management, where he managed a sustainability-focused strategy investing in environmental themes such as water, the circular economy and smart mobility.

Breitenmoser also joins Man GLG from JSS AM, where he co-managed a strategy focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals as well as a sustainable European small cap strategy.

IFC Forum

Peter Tarn has been appointed as chair of the industry group for the legal, financial, and professional services sectors across the world’s international financial centres.

He succeeds Jack Marriott, a partner at Maples Group and head of Maples and Calder’s corporate team.

Tarn is a partner in the BVI at law firm Harneys.