Quilter Cheviot has raided its rivals for a quartet of investment management hires in offices all the way from Scotland to London.
This week, Brooks Macdonald pair Poppy Cox and Jonathan Fletcher started in Quilter Cheviot’s London office having worked with their previous employer for 13 years. Cox and Fletcher will work with advisers and direct clients.
It follows two further investment management hires this year.
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In January, Quilter Cheviot plucked Vanessa Eve from Sanlam Private Wealth to join its new Leeds office. Eve had worked for Sanlam Private Wealth since 2012 having joined from Charles Stanley.
The Yorkshire office was announced in 2019 and is Quilter Cheviot’s fourteenth around the country.
In March, Quilter Cheviot pulled Brown Shipley’s Edinburgh office head Paul Embleton for its own office in the Scottish city. Quilter Cheviot claims to have one of the fastest growing investment teams in Edinburgh.
Quilter Cheviot chief executive Andrew McGlone said the business has invested “considerably” in its investment team over the last 15 months.
McGlone (pictured) said: “Now more than ever, we are seeing that clients want to speak directly to the person managing their portfolio, so I am delighted to welcome four experienced professionals who share a similar ethos to the rest of our investment team.
“During these extraordinary times, we are continuing to support our clients remotely but we are also taking steps to position the business as strongly as we can for a return to normality, whenever that may be.”
Quilter Cheviot recently reported its gender pay gap worsened in 2019/2020 to a 45% difference in median pay between men and women at the firm. Women account for 12% of staff in the top-quartile pay bracket at the Quilter business.
