Rathbone Investment Management International
Richard Gomersall has been appointed as a client director at the Jersey-based firm.
In the role, he will be responsible for the growth of Rathbone’s private client business in Asia, while continuing to look after private clients in Jersey.
Gomersall began his career in finance in 1999 with NatWest in Jersey; and six years later, he moved to UBS as a client adviser.
He relocated with HSBC to Hong Kong in early 2009; and was responsible for advising the bank’s high net worth expatriate clients in Hong Kong and Japan, in addition to advising the group’s senior executives in the region.
Standard Life Aberdeen
The investment manager has hired Kristy Barr as UK distribution director for key accounts.
Barr reports to Noel Butwell, managing director of UK distribution, and will be responsible for the newly formed key accounts team covering both platform and investment specialisms.
She will lead a team of 15 people, which includes 11 business development directors, who will look to grow the firm’s business across the UK wholesale market.
Barr has over 25 years’ experience in financial services.
T Rowe Price
Priscilla Leung has joined the asset manager as head of intermediary business for greater China.
Based in Hong Kong, Leung reports to Elsie Chan, head of distribution for Asia ex-Japan.
In this newly created role, Leung is responsible for managing and building out the firm’s financial intermediary business in the region, with an initial focus on the Hong Kong market.
She leads a team of relationship management professionals to service private banks, retail banks, insurance companies and independent financial advisers in greater China.
Prior to joining T Rowe Price, Leung was with Fidelity International as head of intermediary for Hong Kong, where she spent 12 years.
Nomura Asset Management (Nam)
Ben Sackitey has joined the firm’s Emea distribution team as business development director.
He will focus on UK wholesale and will be supporting Nam UK’s strategy to develop its relationships with wealth managers, fund-of-funds, family offices and other financial institutions.
Sackitey previously spent seven years at Jupiter Asset Management.
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)
The UK’s professional body has named Nick Turner as president of its board.
Turner, who served as president of the Personal Finance Society’s board from 2016 to 2017, has worked within insurance for more than 34 years.
He began his career with Axa and moved to NFU Mutual, where he became a member of the board in 2013.
He is also chairman of MSIL, NFU Mutual’s subsidiary responsible for financial advice, pension, investment, and protection propositions.
Julie Page is also joining the board as deputy president.
Page is the chief executive for Aon UK and has worked within the insurance profession for more than 30 years.
Tilney
The UK wealth management group has named Grant Morrice as a financial planner in Edinburgh.
He joins from St James’s Place, where he ran his own practice for over four years.
Janus Henderson Investors
The Anglo-American firm has named Aaron Scully as a portfolio manager.
Scully will co-manage the UK-domiciled Janus Henderson Global Sustainable Equity Fund (Oeic) alongside Hamish Chamberlayne, portfolio manager and head of socially responsible investing.
Based in Denver, Scully has been working with Chamberlayne for the last two years.
The Tax Incentivised Savings Association (Tisa)
The investing and saving membership organisation has announced that its chairman Clive Shelton is to step down on completion of his term of office.
This comes after the association announced it is to change its name to The Investing and Saving Alliance – meaning it will remain Tisa.
Deputy chairman Tony Stenning will become interim chairman while a permanent successor is appointed.
Hansard Global
Graeme Easton has been named as an independent non-executive director at the Isle of Man-based financial services firm.
Easton has 34 years’ experience in the industry, initially spent at Sun Life, which became Axa, in the UK and then roles at Zurich and Canada Life on the Isle of Man.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
The UK watchdog has named Tulsi Naidu as chair of the FCA practitioner panel from 1 August 2019.
Naidu, who is chief executive of Zurich in the UK, has been a member of the panel since 2017.
She succeeds Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity International.
Also, Nikhil Rathi has become chair of the FCA markets practitioner panel.
Rathi, who is the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, has been a member of the panel since 2015 and is also a member of the FCA practitioner panel.
He succeeds John Trundle, chief executive of Euroclear UK and Ireland.
