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Wealth management firm names regional head, as pensions provider hires chief executive
Wealth management firm names regional head, as pensions provider hires chief executive
Deal will increase the group’s presence in the country as it looks to tap into its HNW market
Elsewhere, LGT opens Thai office and Swiss asset manager to break into Italian retail sector
LGT has launched the first phase of its digital client lifecycle system.
Wealth manager LGT Vestra has hired Valentina Tacchino from Kleinwort Benson for a new role building and leading an international clients team.
Wealth management firm Old Mutual Wealth gears up for its proposed demerger and listing on the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges next year with a flurry of top level appointments. While Jersey-based wealth consultancy Enhance Group gets a new chief executive and chairman.
Australia’s largest bank is to lose its chief executive at the end of the next fiscal year, stirring speculation the move might be linked to a money laundering scandal. While, Quilter Cheviot promotes the deputy head of its Birmingham office to the branch’s top spot.
BNP Paribas Asset Management has hired a new head of client sales for its marketing division and Neuberger Berman has a new Chinese equities portfolio manager. Meanwhile, Minerva Trust’s Wendy Inns is set to rejoin Hawksford after two years away from the company.
Citi Private Bank has named two heads of investment for Asia Pacific, with GWM Investment Management adding a senior wealth manager in London. Brewin Dolphin’s Jersey office has a new head.
Standard Life’s chief executive for UK and Europe Pensions and Savings is to retire, with Quilter Cheviot’s chief executive announcing similar plans. Audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe Clark Whitehill sadly announced on Friday that its national head of private clients has died.
The Dutch bank ABN Amro is to sell its private banking operations in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai totalling $20bn (£15.7bn, €18.6bn) in assets under management to LGT, the two groups announced in separate statements on Tuesday.
Standard Chartered’s Asean and south Asia chief executive has stepped down with immediate effect. Friends Provident International has appointed a regional sales director for Singapore, while Aviva has hired a tech industry heavy hitter for a new communications role.