People Moves

Coutts has poached former Barclays Wealth head of product Keith Wilson to become its managing director, head of products and services.

Quilter has appointed two new regional development managers in London to help build relationships with intermediaries in the area.

Rathbone Investment Management has announced the appointment of Stephen Hunter as investment director at its Edinburgh office.

Barclays has announced Sir David Walker, former chairman of Morgan Stanley International, will take over from Marcus Agius as of the bank from 1 November.

Standard Life Investments has announced the appointment Bill Pekowitz as a listed real estate analyst, based in its US headquarters but working on property portfolios the firm has globally.

Pioneer Investments has appointed two new European equity analysts to improve further its sector specialist and bottom up approach towards stock selection.

Coutts has hired Ben Hunt in a newly-created role as head of derivative products, joining from Barclays Wealth where he was most recently co-head of structured products.

Insight Investment has hired Paul Lambert as head of currency, hailing from UBS Global Asset Management where he held the same role.