The latest moves and appointments for senior roles for Asia-Pacific wealth management.

First Sentier Investors, the Japan-owned organisation, has appointed Kate Turner as global head of responsible investment. Sydney-based Turner is replacing Will Oulton, who is retiring from the business at the end of the year.

First Sentier has also made four other RI appointments:

Finian Power, head of ESG policy and regulation. Power was previously head of investment management in FSI’s Dublin office. 

Bjorn De Smedt, RI specialist. Sydney-based De Smedt is a corporate governance, climate change and sustainability specialist with over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry with a deep knowledge of ESG data and analytics. Prior to joining FSI in October this year, he worked for Institutional Shareholder Services for 12 years.

Rhys Foulkes, RI specialist. Foulkes has spent the past 15 years in investment management focused on fixed income, most recently as senior credit analyst at FSI, developing a special interest in ESG. Based in London, Foulkes will transition into his new RI role in the coming year.

Belinda White, RI specialist. Sydney-based White has long been an advocate for increasing gender diversity in the workplace and championing financial gender equality, and has spent the past 20 years working in external stakeholder engagement. For the past three years, she has held the role of senior communications manager at FSI and will move into her new RI role in January 2023.

First Sentier Investors manages more than £120.4 billion ($144.8 billion) in assets (as at 30 September 2022) on behalf of institutional investors, pension funds, wholesale distributors, investment platforms, financial advisors and their clients worldwide. Formerly known as First State Investments, the firm was acquired from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in August 2019 by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.