People Moves

  • ex-lvam sales manager hired by axa im

    ex-lvam sales manager hired by axa im

    Axa IM has announced the appointment of Benjamin Rumary as investment sales manager for the Channel Islands, Ireland and South West.

  • toby thompson makes comeback with brooks macdonald

    toby thompson makes comeback with brooks macdonald

    Former New Star equity income manager Toby Thompson has returned to the fund management industry after two-and-a-half years to join Brooks Macdonald Asset Management.

  • butler joins list of departures from martin currie

    butler joins list of departures from martin currie

    Chris Butler is the latest fund manager to leave Martin Currie, retiring after 22 years service.

  • former close md joins aberdeen multi-asset team

    former close md joins aberdeen multi-asset team

    Mark Parry, former managing director at Close Asset Management, has been appointed senior investment manager on Aberdeen’s multi-asset team.

  • nigel legge back with no win no fee fund house

    nigel legge back with no win no fee fund house

    Former Liontrust CEO Nigel Legge is back at the head of Vinculum, a fund management firm that will charge no management fee unless its funds outperform their benchmark.

  • newton drops us portfolio as laing leaves

    newton drops us portfolio as laing leaves

    Simon Laing is to depart Newton Investment Management to join Invesco Perpetual as head of US equity fund management.

  • hermes chief rupert clarke steps down

    hermes chief rupert clarke steps down

    Hermes Fund Managers’ chief executive Rupert Clarke has stepped down from the company after four years.

  • arbuthnots proctor leaves for pastures new

    arbuthnots proctor leaves for pastures new

    Arbuthnot Banking Group is to lose CEO of its private banking division Dean Proctor, in what his employer sees as a sure sign of brain drain from the UK.

  • henderson to retain sri funds but not sri team

    henderson to retain sri funds but not sri team

    Henderson Global Investors has confirmed its SRI team has been “provisionally identified as at risk of redundancy” with its funds retaining their SRI mandate and being run by the existing global and UK equity teams.

  • UK business development hire for Legg Mason

    UK business development hire for Legg Mason

    Legg Mason Global Asset Management has hired ex-Legal and General Investment Management sales manager Dan Franklin as director of business development for the UK.

  • Vestra Wealth adds to Jersey team

    Vestra Wealth adds to Jersey team

    Vestra Wealth has appointed three further portfolio managers to its Jersey-based team.

  • legg masons miller to step down

    legg masons miller to step down

    Bill Miller is to step down as chief investment officer of Legg Mason Capital Management in April and will pass over sole responsibility of his flagship fund to Sam Peters.