Independent research business RSMR has recruited Olga Baron to join its investment team.
She previously worked in the research team at Wellian, with her department becoming a casualty of the merger between Wellian Investment Solutions and Hawksmoor Investment Management.
The move by parent group Hurst Point also saw the firm’s office in Tunbridge Wells shut, as staff relocated to Hawksmoor’s London offices.
At RSMR, Baron’s role will be to support the increasing workload of the investment team, including RSMR’s qualitative, forward looking fund research and the management of the RSMR Managed Portfolios, for which RSMR rated funds are the building blocks.
Ken Rayner (pictured), RSMR CEO, said: “We are delighted to enhance our investment expertise and resources with the addition of Olga. She is clearly a talented individual and she’ll be a great fit for the team.”
Baron is the third addition to the RSMR investment team in just over a year, with Naeem Siddique joining from Redmayne Bentley where he was investment manager and James McQuade making an internal move to bolster the team.
Rayner added: “These volatile markets make it more important than ever that we focus on our research and portfolios, thinking all the time of the needs of advice businesses and the investment outcomes of their clients. Olga’s appointment will ensure that we continue to deliver on these essentials.”
In November 2021, RSMR hired Dominic Brooks, ex Canada Life and Old Mutual, and Scott McNiven, ex Vitality and Santander, to support the growing use of RSMR’s managed portfolios by advice businesses.
