People Moves
Summary Of Wealth Management Executive Moves - November 2012

Here is the roundup of moves in the wealth management industry during November.
International
Northern Trust, the Chicago-headquartered banking group, hired Edwin Parker to boost its alternative fund administration team to work across the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Channel Islands. Parker joined Northern Trust earlier in November from Butterfield Fulcrum, where he was managing director.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management named Sheila Patel as head of its international business, spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific, but excluding Japan - a newly created role. Patel was latterly co-chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and in her Singapore-based expanded role continues to focus on distribution-related activities in EMEA.
Trust Corporation of the Channel Islands strengthened its senior management team with the promotion of Andréa Daley Taylor and Mark Coffell to the post of assistant director. Daley Taylor is responsible for the operational and investment processes for a number of family offices based in Europe and the US. Coffell manages a range of client relationships and has responsibility for much of the internal compliance and staff management function.
Bermuda-headquartered Bank of NT Butterfield & Son appointed John Wright as chairman of the board of directors of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Butterfield Bank (UK). Also, Nigel Buchanan, an existing non-executive director at Butterfield Bank (UK), has been appointed chairman of the audit, risk policy and compliance committee.
Wright has experience in UK and international markets, including assignments in India, Sri Lanka, West Africa, Canada, Hong Kong and the US. He was formerly chief executive of Oman International Bank for seven years, CEO of the Northern and National Irish Banks in Ireland for five years, CEO of the Gulf Bank in Kuwait and finally CEO of Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks prior to retirement. He has served as a non-executive director on the Butterfield Group Board and the UK Board since 2002.
Buchanan served as a senior client partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers until 2001, having joined the firm in 1968 and being named a partner in 1978. He led PwC’s financial services practice across Europe for ten years. He joined the board of Leopold Joseph Holdings PLC in 2001 before its acquisition by Butterfield in 2004.
Bob Doll, who left his post as BlackRock's chief equity strategist in June, joined Chicago-based Nuveen Asset Management as chief equity strategist and senior portfolio manager. Doll was latterly BlackRock's chief equity strategist for fundamental equities. He also served as head of the US large-cap equity team, with primary portfolio management responsibility for those strategies.
Allianz Investments appointed Ilya Mozgovoy as deputy chief executive and head of asset management in Russia, Investment Europe reports. Mozgovoy oversees asset management for private, corporate and institutional clients, as well as mutual funds. He has been at the firm since 2005, latterly as a senior portfolio manager.
UBS Global Asset Management strengthened its UK wholesale team with the addition of Ryan Rajkumar - latterly of BNY Mellon Asset Management - as sales director. Based in London, Rajkumar oversees the group's strategic partners, reporting to head of UK wholesale Steve Hutton. He left his former role at BNY Mellon Asset Management in May, having served as head of investment solutions since June 2010.
Sanlam Global Investment Solutions, part of South Africa’s Sanlam Group, named John Croft as head of the UK and Europe for its Bermuda-based investment firm P2International. Croft was latterly a sales director at Co-operative Asset Management. In his prior career he worked for M&G, Deutsche Asset Management and HSBC Global Asset Managers.
United Kingdom Foresight Group, the UK boutique which focuses on environmental, infrastructure and private equity investments, named Nick Morgan as sales director. Morgan is charged with developing Foresight’s links with IFAs, and to up its profile as a provider of tax-efficient investment products related to the renewable energy sector, like solar power production. Morgan joined from Octopus Investments, where he had been fundraising for venture capital trusts, enterprise investment schemes and business property relief products for five years.
BNP Paribas Wealth Management rehired a former employee as its new chief executive for its onshore India business. Samir Bimal joined BNP Paribas Wealth Management India as managing director and CEO of BNP Paribas Investment Services India Private, which is the BNP Paribas Wealth Management entity in India. He is also the global head of India onshore business at the French bank.
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen appointed Sarah Wallis as a senior associate within its 14-strong property team in Guernsey. Wallis joined from Guernsey-based AFR Advocates.
Europe
Butterfield Bank today appointed Alpa Bhakta to the newly created role of head of European lending, having been a year at the firm. In the post, she is responsible for leading the London and Guernsey lending team. Bhakta joined Butterfield Private Bank (London) in October 2011 as head of property finance with over 20 years experience in the banking industry, and was responsible for growing Butterfield Private Bank’s lending business through a focus on high-value residential properties.
Barclays appointed Simon Phillips as head of captive insurance in its wealth and investment management division. Based in Jersey, Phillips works with the current multi-jurisdictional team to widen the captive insurance proposition to reflect changes in the sector as well as developing the firm’s franchise in locations including Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, Bermuda, the Caribbean and onshore US. Phillips has extensive experience in the captive insurance and institutional sectors spanning 23 years in London, Jersey and the Isle of Man as a relationship manager and sector leader.
Russia’s MDM Bank bolstered its private banking division with two senior hires. Sergey Borovikov was appointed as vice president and head of the private bank directorate, while Ineta Done will head the private banking activities of MDM's Stolitsa Territorial Bank. Borovikov was latterly head of the high net worth clients department at Sberbank, developing the "Sberbank One" private banking service during his three-year tenure. Before this he was vice president and head of the VIP client department at Alfa-Bank.
Lombard Odier appointed private banker Stéphane Ulcakar as senior vice president in its Moscow representative office. Ulcakar was latterly a principal at Boston Consulting Group, working there since 2010, having previously worked for the consultancies Bain & Co and Corporate Value Associates for three and nine years respectively.
Bernard Armstrong, who had been head of family offices for Europe at Credit Suisse, left the Zurich-listed bank amid a reorganisation of how the firm operates its ultra high net worth business. Holding the post with the title of managing director since September 2010, Armstrong’s future plans were unclear.
Liechtenstein-based VP Bank Group expanded its executive board at its Vaduz head office at the beginning of 2013, promoting Martin Engler, head of private banking for Liechtenstein, and Günther Kaufmann, head of intermediaries and transaction banking, to the board.
Palamon Capital Partners, the UK-based independent private equity partnership, appointed John David as managing director of investment strategy within its pan-European team. Based in London, the role of the pan-European team is to advance the firm's thematic investment model, which identifies and partners high-growth service businesses across the continent. David joined Palamon from Allstate Investments, where he was latterly global strategist and head of the London office.
Credit Suisse named Paolo Mancini as head of its Italian high net worth business. Based in Milan, Mancini will oversee a team serving clients with €250 million ($199 million) to €300 million in assets. Mancini has been with the Swiss banking giant since 2000, most recently serving as managing director and head of debt capital market for southern Europe.
Italy's Banca Monte Paschi di Siena named Francesco Fanti as head of private banking, amid a wide-reaching shake-up of the bank’s governance structure. Fanti, who latterly oversaw the bank’s operations in central and southern Italy, was charged specifically with consolidating and relaunching MPS’ private banking activities.
Middle East and Africa
Qatar's QInvest appointed its deputy chief executive, Tamim Hamad Al-Kawari, as its new chief executive, following the resignation of former CEO Shahzad Shahbaz. Prior to joining QInvest, Al-Kawari was managing director and country head for Qatar at Goldman Sachs.
Societe Generale Private Banking made four senior appointments in a bid to strengthen the commercial structure it has developed to serve wealthy clients in the Middle East and Africa. Eddy Abramo was appointed global market manager for clients in the Middle East - a role in which he will lead and coordinate the firm's commercial teams in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Geneva, London, Luxembourg and Monaco.
Abramo joined SGPB in Paris as a discretionary portfolio manager in 1997 and was named chief executive of Societe Generale Private Banking Middle East in 2009. He retains this position alongside his new role. Meanwhile, Jean-Paul Rame became global market manager for Africa - a segment with "significant growth potential", the firm said. He retained his existing role as manager of the African desk for Societe Generale Private Banking Switzerland.
Switzerland
Banking software firm the Avaloq Group appointed Martin Frick to the newly-created post of head of business process outsourcing. In this role, Frick is responsible for the development and implementation of Avaloq’s international BPO strategy.
Before joining Avaloq, Frick worked as chief operations officer continental Europe for business processing and procurement firm Xchanging in Frankfurt. Prior to that, he was chief investment officer of Avis Europe in the UK, where he was in charge of the IT and back-office divisions; before that he was CIO of the Winterthur Insurance Group.
The deputy chief executive of EFG International, Lukas Ruflin, decided to take a long-planned sabbatical and will step down from this role, which will not be replaced as part of a move to contain costs. He continued as an advisor and remains on the board of EFG Financial Products.
Mirabaud Asset Management, part of Geneva-based Mirabaud & Cie, appointed Andrew Lake to the role of global high yield manager, as the firm looks to develop its range of funds. Lake reportx to Lionel Aeschlimann, partner and head of asset management at Mirabaud, and will manage global high yield solutions for Mirabaud clients. Lake was latterly at Aviva investors, where he spent two years heading up the high yield business in London. Before that, he was at F&C Asset Management for four years, having begun his high yield career at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 1998.
North America
  Prospera
  Financial Services, an independent broker-dealer, brought in
  two
  advisors in Westchester, PA, and Plymouth, MA, adding over $56
  million
  in assets under management.
  Tom Ambrose of Ambrose Wealth Management has over 32 years of
  experience and was formerly with Ameriprise. Meanwhile, Hilary
  O’Malley -
  latterly of Wells Fargo Advisors - joins Plymouth Rock
  Financial
  Partners and has been advising clients for over 19 years.
Eric Johnson of CNB Bank was promoted to assistant vice president for wealth and asset management.
  Johnson joined CNB Bank as a member of the management
  training
  program in 2004 and afterwards obtained a position within the
  bank’s
  wealth and asset management services division as a trust
  administrator.
  In 2010, he was promoted to trust officer.
  Merrill Lynch brought in 10 advisors from Morgan Stanley, UBS
  and
  Wells Fargo, representing some $1.07 billion in assets and $7.7
  million
  in production.
  Joining from UBS in Louisville, KY, the team of Charles
  Mercer,
  Marguerite Rowland and Dowell Ryan has around $265.3 million in
  assets
  and $2.4 million in production.
Meanwhile, a host of advisors joined from Morgan Stanley:
•In Mill Valley, CA, Jeffrey Wells represents around $264 million in assets and $1.5 million in production.
•In Greenwich, CT, Keith Ward represents around $136.3 million in assets and $1.58 million in production.
•In Washington, DC, John Forster represents around $110.2 million in assets and $500,000 in production.
   •In Red Bank, NJ, Raymond Abbate represents around $102
  million in
  assets and $408,000 in production, and Bob Reinert and Craig
  Reinert
  together represent some $92 million in assets and $526,000 in
  production.
  Lastly, Merrill Lynch hired Terry Schurman from Wells Fargo. He
  is
  based in Ponte Vedra, FL, and represents around $101.9 million in
  assets
  and $813,000 in production.
  Neuberger Berman, the private investment manager, appointed
  Brian
  Layton to lead its wealth management operations in Boston. He
  replaced
  Chris Biotti who left Neuberger Berman earlier in the year for US
  Trust.
  Layton, who joined as a senior vice president, previously worked
  at
  Bernstein Global Wealth Management, part of AllianceBernstein, as
  a
  senior private client wealth advisor.
At Neuberger, he reports to Terry Riordan, Chicago-based regional director of Neuberger Berman Wealth Management.
Sacramento, CA-based River City Bank added a wealth management veteran to its board of directors.
  Lon Burford is a founding partner of the wealth management
  firm
  Genovese Burford & Brothers, which was set up in 1987, and in
  which
  River City bought a 20 per cent stake in July.
  Boston Private Bank & Trust Company named Michael Cohen as
  senior
  vice president and director of operations, charged with ensuring
  that
  all operational components are running efficiently across the
  bank.
  Cohen was latterly vice president of loan operations at Blue
  Hills
  Bank. Before that, he served as vice president of credit
  operations at
  Rockland Trust. He previously held similar roles at Citizens Bank
  and
  State Street Bank.
  Raymond James recruited John Dorsey as senior vice president
  of
  investments and branch manager at its new Huntington, West VA,
  office of
  Raymond James & Associates, a broker-dealer subsidiary of New
  York-listed Raymond James Financial.
  Joining Dorsey as senior client service associate in the
  Huntington
  branch from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is Angela Watson.
  Wells Fargo added a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers to
  its
  board, due to start at the beginning of next year and join the
  audit and
  examination committee.
  Howard Richardson was at PwC for over three decades in a range
  of
  leadership, audit and business advisory positions. He brings the
  number
  of directors on Wells Fargo's board to 16.
  Toronto-based Sprott Asset Management hired Jason Mayer as a
  portfolio manager, focused on the firm's tax-efficient
  flow-through
  product offerings. Mayer will join Paul Wong in co-managing
  Sprott
  Resource Class, a tax-advantaged mutual fund that serves as
  the
  roll-over vehicle for the firm's flow-through offerings. He
  joined from
  Middlefield Capital Corporation, where he was lead portfolio
  manager on a
  number of investment funds.
  Bob Doll, who left his post as BlackRock's chief equity
  strategist in
  June, joined Chicago-based Nuveen Asset Management as chief
  equity
  strategist and senior portfolio manager.
  Doll was latterly BlackRock's chief equity strategist for
  fundamental
  equities. He also served as head of the US large-cap equity team,
  with
  primary portfolio management responsibility for those strategies.
  He now
  reports to Nuveen Asset Management's head of equities, David
  Chalupnik.
Doll remains at BlackRock in an advisory capacity throughout the remainder of 2012.
Snowden Capital Advisors, a dual listed RIA and broker-dealer, added two teams from Merrill Lynch.
  The DiCiaccio and LaMothe-Gonzalez teams manage some $500 million
  in
  client assets and are founding a West Coast branch office for
  Snowden in
  Pasadena, CA.
  Joining Snowden as partners are: John DiCiaccio, managing
  director of
  the DiCiaccio team; Leah Thomson Snell, vice president of the
  DiCiaccio
  team; and Jon LaMothe and Luis Gonzalez, both managing directors
  of the
  LaMothe-Gonzalez team.
  Behringer Harvard, a firm that creates alternative investment
  programs for institutional and individual investors, brought in
  Brad
  Watt as executive vice president – net lease investments.
  Watt, who has been in the real estate investment industry for
  25
  years, will create and distribute a series of 1031 Delaware
  Statutory
  Trust and other real estate wealth management programs focused on
  fixed
  income and tax efficiency. The net lease investment platform will
  focus
  on single-tenant assets leased to investment grade tenants on
  long-term
  double net and triple net leases.
UBS Global Asset Management appointed Thomas Wels as head of its global real estate business.
  Having worked for the firm since 2005, Wels was latterly
  chief
  operating officer, prior to which he was responsible for
  expanding the
  company’s global fund services business. In his new role he will
  be
  mainly based in Zurich, but will spend time in all the major
  asset
  management offices.
Meanwhile, UBS said farewell to Wels’ predecessor Paul Marcuse who has been head of global real estate since 2007.
The Private Client Reserve, a unit of Minneapolis, MN-based US Bank, appointed three senior vice presidents in Florida.
  Gwendolyn Boykin, a senior vice president and senior trust
  officer,
  joined the office in Palm Beach. She will collaborate with high
  net
  worth individuals, families and charitable organizations to
  provide them
  with trust and estate administration services.
  Also in Palm Beach, Nicholas Pollard was named senior vice
  president
  and banking manager. Pollard will provide specialized lending
  services
  and oversee the day-to-day management of financial activities for
  HNW
  clients.
  Lastly, Jack Randall will serve as a senior vice president and
  wealth
  management advisor in Naples, where he will develop and
  implement
  customized investment strategies and plans for HNW individuals
  and
  families.
  Morgan Stanley appointed John Campbell as director of the Greater
  New
  Jersey region, based in the Short Hills wealth management office.
  Campbell will oversee offices throughout the state and in
  sections of
  Pennsylvania. He previously held the roles of financial
  advisor/branch
  manager in Melville, NY, and San Francisco, CA, as well as
  district
  manager in New York City and head of business development in
  Purchase,
  NY.
  BlackRock took on UBS's Lawrence Kemp as a managing director and
  head
  of its fundamental large-cap growth team, effective December 10.
  Kemp was latterly head of US large-cap growth equity at UBS and
  at
  BlackRock replaces Jeffrey Lindsey, who the firm confirmed is
  leaving in
  February after 10 years. Lindsey will work with Kemp on
  transitioning
  the portfolios until his departure.
  Based in New York, Kemp will oversee the $4.9 billion
  BlackRock
  Capital Appreciation Fund, the $73 million BlackRock Focus Growth
  Fund
  and Fundamental Large Cap Growth portfolios, including
  sub-advised and
  institutional portfolios, as of January 1. He will report to
  Chris
  Leavy, who took over the responsibility for BlackRock's
  large-cap
  portfolios from Robert Doll.
  Boyden, the US executive search firm, added Andrew Reese as a
  managing director at its New York office. Reese will play a key
  role in
  recruiting C-level and senior executives within the financial
  services
  industry, including companies specializing in wealth management,
  asset
  management and private equity.
  Kensington Capital Partners, the Canadian investment firm
  that
  specializes in alternative assets, appointed Eamonn McConnell and
  John
  Walker as managing directors.
McConnell will have lead responsibility for the Kensington Hedge Fund, while Walker runs the firm's infrastructure business.
  McConnell has worked for numerous international institutions
  including Barclays Global Investors, Deutsche Bank and Merrill
  Lynch, as
  well as at smaller entrepreneurial firms.
  UBS Wealth Management Americas reinforced its broker force in
  Ohio
  with a team of advisors from Bank of America's Merrill Lynch.
  Advisor Robert Anning, along with his son John Anning and
  Tollie
  Chavis, previously served as senior vice presidents. Based in
  Cincinnati, they managed over $1 billion in client assets and
  last year
  produced more than $3 million in annual revenue. According to
  regulatory
  filings, Robert Anning was at Merrill for over 40 years.
  BlackRock appointed Russ Koesterich, global investment strategist
  for
  its iShares business, to the newly-created position of group
  chief
  investment strategist.
  Reporting to Ken Kroner, global head of multi-asset
  strategies,
  Koesterich will communicate the firm's investment strategy
  and
  perspective on the markets and economy to investors and
  financial
  advisors, while continuing in his iShares role, which he has held
  since
  2010.
  His tenure with BlackRock dates back to 2005, including his
  years
  with Barclays Global Investors, which BlackRock acquired in 2009.
  At
  BGI, Koesterich was the global head of investment strategy for
  active
  equities and a senior portfolio manager within the US market
  neutral
  group.
  JP Morgan named Marianne Lake, currently chief financial officer
  of
  its consumer and community banking business, as CFO for the
  entire US
  banking group, effective from early in 2013.
She will succeed Doug Braunstein, who will become vice chairman of the company following Lake's move into the CFO position.
Before Lake took on her current role, she served as global controller of the investment bank from 2007 to 2009.
  In his new job, Braunstein “will focus on serving top clients of
  the
  firm,” JP Morgan said. Prior to taking on the CFO role in June
  2010, he
  served as head of investment banking Americas from 2008, and,
  prior to
  that, he held several other senior investment banking
  positions,
  including head of investment banking coverage and mergers and
  acquisitions.
  New York-listed First Republic Bank took on Barbara Palmer as
  regional managing director at the Portland, OR, office, which
  provides
  lending, wealth management and trust services to individuals,
  businesses, foundations and non-profits.
  Before joining First Republic, Palmer was a senior vice president
  and
  market executive for US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth
  Management in Portland. She worked at BofA for 35 years.
  InvesTrust, a national trust bank that serves individuals and
  institutions, appointed Mark Williams as chief investment
  officer.
  Williams joined InvesTrust from Bank of Oklahoma, where he
  oversaw
  accounts with around $2 billion in assets. 
  Baird strengthened its Portland, ME, wealth management office,
  adding
  Baron Becker as a vice president and financial advisor along
  with
  registered client relationship associate Kim Fickett.
  Becker was previously a vice president and financial advisor
  at
  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth
  Management) since
  1999. He started his career in 1991 as a principal trader at
  Murphy
  & Durieu and then moved to Paine Webber as a principal trader
  and
  investment executive.
  New York-listed Manning & Napier brought in Robert Zak as an
  independent board director and appointed him to serve on the
  nominating
  and corporate governance, compensation, and audit committees.
  Since 1995, Zak has served as president and chief executive
  at
  Merchants Insurance Group, a privately-held insurance company.
  Prior to
  entering the insurance industry in 1985, he had a career in
  public
  accounting.  
  Los Angeles-headquartered Aspiriant appointed its New
  York-based
  director of wealth management, Lisa Colletti, as a principal of
  the
  firm.
  Colletti has served as wealth management director in New York
  since
  joining the firm last year. She has 13 years of industry
  experience
  including in tax and estate planning.
  Wells Fargo Advisors, Wells Fargo’s broker-dealer arm,
  appointed
  David Kowach as president of its Private Client Group, the
  brokerage’s
  largest channel. Kowach replaced Jim Hays, who is now the head of
  Wealth
  Brokerage Services.
  Kowach will report to Danny Ludeman, president and chief
  executive of
  Wells Fargo Advisors. Kowach previously led the firm’s
  business
  development group.
  BNY Mellon Wealth Management promoted Garrett Alton to a
  newly-created position overseeing the firm's sales teams in
  Pennsylvania
  and Washington and leading each region's business development
  efforts.
  Alton will relocate from Atlanta, GA, to Philadelphia, PA,
  reporting
  to Mid-Atlantic regional president David Kutch and Central US
  regional
  president Andy Paterson.
  Canada's RBC Wealth Management appointed Ayesha Yasin as an
  advisor
  in Washington, DC. Yasin joined from Morgan Stanley Wealth
  Management,
  with $116 million in assets under management and $972,000 in
  production. 
Goldman Sachs completed its latest round of partner appointments, adding 70 individuals to its exclusive roster.
The following individuals will become partners of the firm as of January 1, 2013:
Vivek Bantwal
Pat Fels
John Mallory
Michael Ronen
Heather Bellini
Pete Finn
Joseph Mauro
Jami Rubin
Brian Bolster
David Fishman
Charles McGarraugh
Yann Samuelides
Jill Borst
Sheara Fredman
Xavier Menguy
Joshua Schiffrin
Michael Brandmeyer
Jacques Gabillon
Amol Naik
David Schwimmer
Jason Brauth
Francesco Garzarelli
Jo Natauri
Gaurav Seth
Stuart Cash
Nick Giovanni
Una Neary
Michael Siegel
Alex Chi
Brad Gross
Gregory Olafson
Michael Smith (Singapore)
Kent Clark
Anthony Gutman
Lisa Opoku
Josh Struzziery
Richard Cormack
Leland Hensch
Gerald Ouderkirk
Damian Sutcliffe
Jack Daly
Russell Horwitz
Francesco Pascuzzi
Michael Swell
Anne Marie Darling
Roy Joseph
Anthony Pasquariello
Ryan Thall
David Dase
John Kim (Seoul)
Huw Pill
Bobby Vedral
Olaf Diaz-Pintado
Marie Louise Kirk
Dmitri Potishko
Simon Watson
Robert Drake-Brockman
Hugh Lawson
Sean Rice
Toby Watson
Alessandro Dusi
Scott Lebovitz
Francois Rigou
Yoshihiko Yano
Edward Emerson
Ericka Leslie
Scott Rofey
Antonio Esteves
Luca Lombardi
Jeroen Rombouts
  BMO Private Bank hired Michael Arbet as vice president and
  director
  of investments, focused on the wealth management needs of
  clients
  throughout Southwest Wisconsin.
  Withers Bergman, the international law firm, appointed Reaz Jafri
  and
  Theda Fisher to spearhead a new US immigration practice for
  wealthy
  individuals and families. Jafri and Fisher both join the firm
  from
  Abrams Fensterman and will be based in the firm’s New York
  office.
  Atlantic Trust, the private wealth management arm of New
  York-listed
  Invesco, appointed Luke Davis as a vice president and
  relationship
  manager in New York.
  Prior to joining Atlantic Trust, Davis was a vice president
  and
  client advisor at Bernstein Global Wealth Management, where he
  advised
  high net worth families, foundations and family offices.
  Glenmede, the privately-held investment and wealth management
  firm,
  took on Timothy Fisk as a vice president and wealth advisor
  in
  Philadelphia, PA.
  Fisk joined from Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president
  and
  trust specialist within the wealth structuring group. In that
  role, he
  was responsible for fiduciary business development efforts across
  four
  states in the Midwest/Southeast. 
  In a separate move, Glenmede named Jeffrey Coron director of
  institutional and intermediary distribution for Glenmede
  Investment
  Management. He will report to Sally Wirts, chief administrative
  officer
  of GIM.
  Raymond James took on Karl Rothermund as senior vice president
  of
  investments in the Scottsdale, AZ, office of Raymond James &
  Associates, a broker-dealer subsidiary of New York-listed Raymond
  James
  Financial.
  Rothermund joins Raymond James from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
  (now
  Morgan Stanley Wealth Management), where he managed $80 million
  in
  client assets and had about $1 million in production. He has 35
  years of
  experience in the financial services industry and is joined by
  his son,
  Ryan Rothermund, associate vice president of investments, and
  registered service associate Susan Dover - with whom he has
  partnered
  for over nine years.
  RBC Wealth Management appointed Harold Langer of the Langer
  O’Neill
  Investment group as a senior vice president and financial advisor
  at the
  Tucson, AZ, office.
  Langer - latterly a senior vice president at Merrill Lynch - has
  30
  years of industry experience and $180 million in assets under
  administration, with production of $1.2 million.
  UBS Wealth Management Americas bolstered its Northbrook, IL,
  advisor
  force with the addition of Thomas Temple from Bank of America's
  Merrill
  Lynch.
  At Merrill - where he worked for over 25 years - Temple managed
  about
  $240 million in client assets, with annual revenue production
  of
  approximately $1.2 million.
  New York-listed Westwood Holdings Group hired Mark Wallace as
  chief
  financial officer, succeeding Bill Hardcastle, who will focus on
  the
  growth of the firm's domestic and international fund business.
  Wallace previously served as CFO, among other financial
  leadership
  positions, for an S&P 500 real estate investment trust.
  Hardcastle,
  who was Westwood's CFO for seven years, will also provide
  leadership in
  other corporate development and strategic initiatives.
  Industry veteran Mark Elston and his three-strong team joined
  Reno,
  NV-based Legacy Wealth Planning, a group of independent
  financial
  advisors that are affiliated with broker-dealer LPL Financial.
  He and his new team plan to maintain over $185 million in
  client
  assets as they move to an independent business model, via which
  they
  will manage the assets of about 1,100 clients throughout the
  Reno-Sparks
  area.
  Standard Chartered's chairman for the Americas, David
  Stileman,
  retired on November 16 after 29 years at the bank. He will not
  be
  replaced. 
  Stileman became chairman for the Americas in June 2011,
  having
  previously served as chief executive of the bank's Americas
  business
  since late 2007. In this role he was succeeded by Julio Rojas in
  New
  York.
  Minneapolis, MN-based US Bank hired Lisa Simonson and Kato Wade
  as
  director of financial administration and director of private
  client
  experience, respectively, for Ascent Private Capital Management,
  the
  firm's wealth management unit that caters for clients with at
  least $25
  million in assets.
  In a separate move, the bank also named Jorgen Gustafson as
  vice
  president and senior portfolio manager at the Private Client
  Reserve - a
  role in which he will provide clients with integrated and
  customized
  investment services. 
  RBC Wealth Management International, a division serving high
  net
  worth clients in Latin America, the Caribbean and the US, hired
  Nicolas
  Seigal as branch director in Miami.
  Seigal was formerly associate director of Merrill Lynch’s
  Miami
  complex and has been in the industry 18 years, having also worked
  in
  Uruguay with Merrill Lynch and BankBoston.
  At RBC, he takes on responsibility for 13 advisors in the
  Miami
  office and a further eight in New York until a branch manager can
  be
  found for that office. He reports to Ricardo Morean, director
  of
  international advisory.
  UBS Wealth Management Americas bolstered its broker force in
  Aventura, FL, bringing in a team of advisors from Morgan Stanley
  Wealth
  Management.
  Advisors Michael Bulhack, Mario Ponczek and Douglas Ponczek
  previously managed $423 million in client assets and generated
  $1.6
  million in annual revenue.
HSBC announced new chief executives for its operations in Canada, Australia and the Philippines.
  The changes come as, after more than 25 years with HSBC
  Group,
  Lindsay Gordon will retire as president and CEO of HSBC Bank
  Canada and
  chairperson of HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada), effective
  January
  5, 2013.
Gordon will be appointed to the board of directors of HSBC France, subject to required approvals.
  Paulo Maia, who will succeed Gordon on January 7 next year,
  is
  currently CEO of HSBC Bank Australia, a position he has held
  since July
  2009. Maia held a variety of senior positions with HSBC Bank
  Brazil
  including executive director of each of the bank’s main business
  lines,
  and then deputy CEO. Maia joined HSBC in 1993.
  In turn, Maia will be succeeded in Sydney by Tony Cripps on
  December
  24, 2012, who returns to Australia with more than 25 years of
  experience
  working with HSBC globally.
  Nasdaq-listed First PacTrust Bancorp, the holding company for
  Pacific
  Trust Bank and Beach Business Bank, added a number of senior
  staff to
  its financial team.
  Ronald Nicolas took over as executive vice president and
  chief
  financial officer of First PacTrust on November 5, after a period
  of
  acting as a consultant to the firm. He replaced Marangal Domingo,
  who
  resigned following the filing of the firm’s Q2 results. 
  Meanwhile, Lonny Robinson joined as executive vice president
  and
  chief financial officer of Pacific Trust Bank. Previously,
  Domingo was
  CFO of both First PacTrust and Pacific Trust – a role which has
  now been
  split. Robinson was latterly CFO of Hamni Financial Corporation,
  a
  publicly-traded bank holding company, and its subsidiary Hamni
  Bank.
  Finally, the firm appointed Craig Naselow as executive vice
  president, treasurer and chief investment officer of First
  PacTrust and
  PacTrust Bank. He was previously senior vice president, treasurer
  and
  investment executive at Aris Development Company.
New York-headquartered Goldman Sachs appointed Mark Tucker as an independent director.
  Tucker's appointment expands the board to 12 directors, 10 of
  whom
  are independent. He will serve as a member of the firm's audit,
  risk,
  compensation and corporate governance and nominating committees.
  Tucker is also group CEO and president of AIA Group, an
  independent
  pan-Asian life insurance group. Between 2005 and 2009 he served
  as group
  CEO of Prudential.
  Barclays appointed 18 investment representatives in eight
  offices
  across the US for its wealth and investment management
  division,
  signalling a major push by the UK-listed bank into the country’s
  wealth
  management market.
The appointments are as follows:
New York
  Tom Dexter joined Barclays as a director from Bank of America
  Merrill
  Lynch, where he served high net worth individuals, corporate
  executives, partnerships, and foundations. Prior to joining Bank
  of
  America Merrill Lynch in 2008, Dexter spent four years at
  Lehman
  Brothers as an investment representative.
  Brett Fleckman joined as a director from JP Morgan Private
  Bank,
  where he focused on customized financial solutions for high net
  worth
  individuals. Prior to that role, Fleckman was the New York
  branch
  manager for the private client business at Thomas Weisel
  Partners, and
  previously a financial advisor at Alliance Bernstein.
  Mark O'Shea joined as an assistant vice president from Morgan
  Stanley
  Wealth Management, where he advised high net worth individuals
  and
  families as part of the Moldaver 80 Group. Prior to joining
  Morgan
  Stanley, O’Shea worked on the trading floor of the New York
  Stock
  Exchange managing the daily order flow for several investment
  banks and
  hedge funds.
  Lastly, Edward Moldaver joined as a managing director from
  Morgan
  Stanley Wealth Management. Previously, he was a senior managing
  director
  at Bear Stearns’ private wealth client services group.
Los Angeles
  Jonathan Bates joined Barclays as a director from JP Morgan,
  where he
  specialized in municipal bonds, working with high net worth
  individuals
  and middle market institutions.
San Francisco
  Hugh Beecher joined Barclays as a director from Credit
  Suisse’s
  private banking division, where he served high net worth
  individuals and
  families.
Boston
  Patrick Delahunty joined Barclays as a director from JP
  Morgan
  Private Bank where, as a senior private banker, he focused on
  advising
  high net worth individuals, families, business owners,
  institutions and
  endowments and foundations to provide customized solutions for
  their
  wealth management needs.
  Timothy King joined Barclays as a director from JP Morgan
  Private
  Bank, where he worked as an investment team leader, with high net
  worth
  individuals, families, public and private institutions,
  corporate
  executives, and business owners.
Tim Humphrey joined Barclays as an assistant vice president from JP Morgan Private Bank, which he joined in 2008.
  Lastly, Brian Kelly was appointed as an assistant vice president.
  He
  joins from JP Morgan Private Bank, where he had worked since 2007
  as an
  investment associate.
Dallas
  Noble Nash joined Barclays as a director from Credit Suisse’s
  private
  banking division where he served high net worth families and
  institutions since 2000.
Mike Whorton joined Barclays as a director from Credit Suisse’s private banking division which he joined in 2000.
  Chris Boley joined Barclays as a vice president from Credit
  Suisse’s
  private banking division, where he worked with business
  owners,
  executives and foundations.
Atlanta
  Scott Macolino joined Barclays as a director from SunTrust
  Investment
  Services where, as a private wealth advisor, he served ultra high
  net
  worth individuals, corporate executives and professional
  investors.
Miami
  Carlos Gallo joined Barclays as a director from UBS Financial
  Services, where as a senior vice president within the
  international
  division, he served high net worth individuals and families in
  Peru,
  Mexico and Venezuela.
  Irl Solomon joined Barclays as a director from Morgan Stanley
  Wealth
  Management, where as an executive director he served high net
  worth
  individuals, family offices and institutions.
  Jeannie Adams-Camblin joined Barclays as a vice president from
  UBS
  Financial Services. At UBS, Adams-Camblin was a vice president
  within
  the international division serving high net worth individuals
  and
  families.
Palm Beach
  Clark Appleby joined Barclays as an assistant vice president
  from
  Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. At his predecessor firm, he
  assisted
  high net worth individuals and families with their wealth
  management
  goals.
  Brighton, MI-based Pinnacle Wealth Management, a
  privately-owned
  financial planning practice, brought in Nadine Burns as director
  of
  business development.
  Rasco Klock, the Coral Gables, FL-based law firm, appointed
  Craig
  Linder as special counsel, with responsibility for the securities
  law
  practice.
  Linder rejoins former colleagues/senior lawyers Joe Klock,
  Janet
  Munn, Gabe Nieto, J C Antorcha, Jack Shawde and John Eaton,
  working
  within the corporate, securities and finance practice.
  Deutsche Bank appointed senior manager Jacques Brand as its
  chief
  executive for North America, joining the Frankfurt-listed bank’s
  group
  executive committee. He took over from Seth Waugh, who as
  announced in
  February this year is stepping down after a decade in the post.
  Brand has been at Germany’s largest bank since 1999, joining in
  New
  York. Most recently, he has been the global head of investment
  banking
  coverage and advisory in its corporate banking and securities
  division.
  As part of the change, Waugh will join Deutsche Bank’s
  Americas
  advisory board and become a senior advisor to the bank and its
  clients.
  Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank also announced that it has appointed
  Bill
  Woodley as deputy CEO of North America, a newly created
  position.
  Woodley joined the bank in 1998 and is also global chief
  operating
  officer of the regional management division. 
  BNY Mellon made two senior hires for its wealth management office
  in
  Atlanta, adding a senior private banker and sales director.
  Jonathan Blackwood, senior private banker, will manage BNY
  Mellon
  Wealth Management’s private banking activities in Georgia,
  reporting to
  regional private banking director Lisa Simington. David Noosinow,
  senior
  sales director, will work on business development throughout
  Georgia,
  as well as Lexington, Louisville and Kentucky, reporting to the
  regional
  sales manager of the Mid-Altlantic and Central, Garrett Alton.
  Blackwood joined NY Mellon from Wells Fargo, where he worked for
  over
  20 years, most recently as a senior vice president and senior
  private
  banker for the company’s Atlanta private bank.
United Kingdom
  UK-based Sesame Bankhall Group, the network support service
  for financial advisors, appointed Diana Miller as an independent,
  non-executive
  director. With 30 years’ experience in the financial services
  industry, Miller
  held a number of risk, compliance and legal positions. She was
  latterly group
  risk and compliance director at Legal & General, where she worked
  for 22
  years.
  Scottish Widows Investment Partnership appointed Michaela
  Rayner and Martin Orrin as investment sales directors in its UK
  wholesale
  team. Rayner is responsible for increasing SWIP's share of the
  intermediary and
  discretionary fund management markets in the North of England
  while Orrin will
  focus on the south-west of England
  and the Midlands. Both report to Martyn Gilbey
  head of wholesale. Rayner joined SWIP from AXA Investment
  Managers where she
  was a discretionary sales manager.
  Liontrust appointed Michael Mabbutt as head of its
  newly-formed global credit division. The firm will launch a
  Dublin-based global
  strategic bond fund in the new year, subject to appropriate
  regulatory
  approvals. Mabbutt joined from Thames River Capital where he is
  currently a
  consulting partner.
  Kevin Parry was due to leave as Schroders' chief financial
  officer and director on 5 May 2013, succeeded by Richard Keers.
  Keers was at
  the time of the announcement a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
  and was PwC's
  global relationship partner for Schroders between 2006 and 2010.
  Geoffrey Clarkson, group director at Tenet Group, was due to
  leave in early 2013 to pursue other ambitions. Clarkson, a
  regulatory lawyer,
  joined the group in 2000 when he moved across as part of the
  acquisition of IFA
  Professional, a support services proposition which he developed
  whilst a
  partner for Bond Pearce.
  Verbatim Asset Management, the financial planning arm of
  UK-based SimplyBiz Group, added WAY Fund Managers' chief
  executive Peter Smith
  to its investment committee. Smith, a director of Verbatim
  Discretionary
  Managers, is a full member of the committee. He reports into the
  committee for
  Verbatim Discretionary Service, providing insight into
  discretionary fund
  managers including their capabilities and how they might be used
  by IFAs.
  UK
  investment manager Quilter made three new appointments to its
  in-house research
  team. Anubhav Rastogi and Amish Patel joined as equity research
  analysts while
  Nick Wood joins as a collectives research analyst.
  Charles Gothard of Speechly Bircham was to leave in the
  spring of 2013 to rejoin Macfarlanes as a partner. Gothard
  trained and
  qualified at Macfarlanes, the international law firm, but left to
  join
  Speechlys in 2005.
  David Gurr, head of UK financial intermediaries at
  Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management, retired. Gurr, who was
  appointed
  managing head of financial intermediaries in 2006, was replaced
  by Miles
  Robinson, head of Deutsche's Birmingham
  office.
  Grant Peterkin, senior portfolio manager at Ignis Asset
  Management, left the firm to move abroad. Peterkin, who joined
  the firm in
  April 2011, co-managed the Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond
  fund with
  three others: Russ Oxley, head of rates; Stuart Thomson, chief
  economist; and
  Adam Purzitsky.
  Signia Wealth hired Rupert Robinson, former chief executive
  of Schroders UK Private Bank. Robinson is based in the group’s
  London office, where he heads the firm’s
  wealth management activities.
  Standard Chartered Private Bank appointed Scott Le Flour as
  a senior associate director in Jersey,
  recruiting him from Coutts. Le Flour was named as an associate
  director for
  Coutts in the Channel Islands at the start of
  August.
  Leo Fund Managers, the London-based hedge fund and private
  equity group, appointed Ben Davis as head of sales and investor
  relations. Davis joined from
  StormHarbour Alternative Investments where he was partner and
  head of investor
  relations.
  Boost ETP, the newly-launched UK exchange-traded products
  provider, appointed Richard Kent as head of product operations
  and Jose Poncela
  as senior in-house legal counsel. Kent was latterly a director in
  the
  equity and fund-linked derivatives team at UBS Investment Bank,
  having
  previously worked at Barclays Capital. Poncela, meanwhile, served
  as in-house
  counsel at Spain’s
  La Caixa, as a vice president within Nomura’s corporate equity
  derivatives
  structuring group and as a structurer in the fund-linked
  derivatives and equity
  capital market/corporate equity derivatives team at UBS.
  Brown Advisory, the US investment house, added Keryn
  Brock to its London-based fund sales team. She joined from BNY
  Mellon Wealth
  Management in Boston,
  where she was an advisor to US-based high net worth families,
  charities,
  endowments and foundations.
  HedgeStart, a London-based consultancy working in the
  alternative
  investments space, appointed Laurence Parry, a former UK
  government
  revenue specialist and experienced accountant to work in its
  private client tax
  practice.  Parry was named as a partner.
  Previously, he was a specialist anti-avoidance advisor with HM
  Revenue &
  Customs for three years.
  Bruce Ely-Johnston, founder of London & Capital’s
  advisor solutions business, has resurfaced at Sanlam Private
  Investments as
  head of business development.
  ETF Securities appointed Melanie Svalander as director of
  communications in London.
  She reports to Steve Setton, head of marketing and
  communications. Svalander
  previously worked in corporate communications at the Swiss
  private bank Banque
  Syz & Co.
  Towry, the UK
  wealth advisory firm, added Pete Cormack to its Edinburgh office
  as a wealth advisor. Cormack
  previously spent a decade as a financial planning manager at
  Royal Bank of Scotland. He is
  also known, however, for having been a professional footballer
  who played in
  both the English and Scottish leagues for 16 years before
  beginning his
  financial services career at Canada Life.
  The wealth and investment management division of Barclays
  added
  private banker Debbie Cotton to its Reading
  office. Cotton previously spent five years as a wealth advisor at
  Towry.
  Brewin Dolphin named Henry Algeo to the position of group
  managing director. He was previously chief operating officer.
  Reech AiM Group, the international asset manager, appointed
  Gary Sher and Adam Mincer as finance director and head of
  operations and
  technology, respectively. Both appointees are based in London and
  report to Christophe Reech,
  chairman and chief executive.
  WH Ireland appointed its head of private wealth management,
  Richard Killingbeck, as an executive director. Killingbeck joined
  WH Ireland in
  mid-September. He was previously managing director of Credit
  Suisse’s UK
  private banking business, a post he took up in April 2010.
  Rowan Dartington appointed Kevin Bowhay as a discretionary
  fund manager, charging him primarily with growing the firm’s
  funds under
  management and supporting its expansion. Bowhay joined from
  Lloyds TSB Private
  Banking, where he had worked for 25 years advising high and ultra
  high net
  worth clients.
  Quilter added David Soutar to its investment team in Edinburgh.
  Soutar was
  previously joint managing partner at Castlefield Investments,
  where he managed
  a range of portfolios for charities, pension schemes and private
  investors.
  Mattioli Woods appointed investment consultant Stan Allen.
  Allen, who will work across all of the firm’s offices in
  London,
  Leicester, Aberdeen and Glasgow, was latterly a relationship
  manager
  at Coutts. Before joining Royal Bank of Scotland’s flagship
  wealth brand he
  worked in business and corporate banking for NatWest.
  Richard Beggs, head of UK
  investment advisory at JP Morgan’s private banking business in
  London, resigned from the firm.
  Standard Life Investments, the UK-based fund management
  division of Standard Life appointed Rickey Thevakarrunai as fund
  analyst to
  strengthen its multi-manager fund solutions team. Latterly,
  Thevakarrunai was
  portfolio analyst at PIMCO, prior to which he worked at State
  Street Global
  Advisors.
  Standard Life Investments added Adam Rudd as an investment
  director in the multi-asset team. Rudd previously worked for JP
  Morgan in New York. He reports to
  Guy Stern, head of multi-asset fund management.
  The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners brought in
  Hélène Lewis, a British Virgin Islands private
  client practitioner, to serve as chair of the international board
  for one year
  from 1 December. She succeeded incumbent chair Michael Young TEP,
  who retired
  from STEP’s board.
  HSBC Global Asset Management named Andy Clark as its new UK
  chief
  executive, succeeding Simeon Brown, who the firm said is leaving
  to pursue
  other interests after 16 years at the group.
  DWF, the UK
  law firm, aded associate Jon Gould to its Newcastle
  office in the private client team. Gould previously worked for
  Hay & Kilner
  Solicitors in Newcastle and Linder Myers in Manchester. He has
  worked
  with private clients for six years.
  BlueBay Asset Management appointed Erich Gerth as global
  head of business development in London.
  Gerth, who is also a partner, leads BlueBay’s global sales and
  marketing
  activities and sits on the management committee. He joined from
  Aviva
  Investors, where he was chief executive of Asia-Pacific and
  global business
  development.
  Legal & General Property, the property fund management
  arm of the Legal & General insurance and investments group,
  appointed Bill
  Page as business research manager. Page joined from Jones Lang
  LaSalle, where
  he had headed its EMEA offices research team for seven years.
  UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank named banking director
  Nigel Gautrey as managing director of its Isle of Man
  business. Gautrey succeeded Alan Molloy, who left after 18 years,
  but who
  remained with the firm for a handover period. Gautrey joined
  Duncan Lawrie
  Private Bank Isle of Man as head of banking in 2000 and is also a
  director of
  the bank’s fiduciary services company, Duncan Lawrie Offshore
  Services.
  The wealth and investment management division of Barclays
  recruited two veterans from Coutts - Mark Priestley and Michael
  Foy - for its London office. Priestley,
  who joined as a director, had worked for Coutts for 25 years,
  spending the past
  18 of these as a banker serving high net worth individuals.
  Scottish Widows Investment Partnership took on Martyn Gilbey
  as head of wholesale in London.
  Gilbey reports to Francis Ghiloni, director of distribution and
  client
  management.
  Brewin Dolphin appointed Alan Riddell as divisional director
  in its Glasgow
  office. Riddell was formerly a senior associate director at
  Speirs &
  Jeffrey, having worked at the firm for 25 years.
  Switzerland’s
  MIG Bank appointed Paul Chrimes as chief operating officer of MIG
  Capital (Europe), its London-based subsidiary. Chrimes was
  latterly
  chief executive of E*TRADE, a role he took up in 2010.
Asia-Pacific
  National Australia Bank named Lara Bourguignon as managing
  director of
  its wealth unit Plum Financial Services. Bourguignon was
  previously a senior
  strategist for NAB Wealth.
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced Simon Lucocq as head
  of
  technology and operations in the Asia-Pacific region based in
  Hong
  Kong. Lucocq was previously with Nomura where for the last
  four
  years he was the global chief information officer. He now reports
  to Bill
  Pappas, CIO for global wholesale banking, and has regional
  accountability to
  Matthew Koder, president for Asia-Pacific.
  US asset manager
  Principal Global Invesors named Mihail Dobrinov as head of its
  emerging markets
  equities team to replace Michael Reynal, who has left the firm.
  Dobrinov, who
  joined the company in 1995 as international and emerging market
  debt and
  currency specialist, inherited the management of some $9.3
  billion in assets
  for clients in the region.
  Australian Securities and Investments Commission announced plans
  to
  increase its advisor numbers head of the planned launch of the
  Future of
  Financial Advice legislation in 2013. So far, the ASIC has listed
  eight vacant
  positions in the Sydney and Melbourne branches for advisors
  specialising in
  risk management and compliance and legal.
  Brooks Entwistle, partner and chairman for the Goldman Sachs'
  South East Asia business announced his retirement
  effective the end of 2012. Entwistle has been with the company
  for 20 years. He
  will not be totally leaving the bank on his retirement, however,
  and will stay
  on as advisory director.
  UK-listed Henderson Global Investors named Matt Gaden as head
  of
  distribution for the Australian business. Gaden was the general
  manager for
  institutional business and strategic alliances for Challenger
  Limited. He now
  reports to Rob Adams, executive chairman of Henderson
  Australia.
  Cushman & Wakefield, the global real estate services firm,
  opened
  its fifth office in Asia for 2012 in the Philippines and
  appointed Joe
  Curran as general manager. Curran was previously with CBRE
  Philippines, where
  he worked for eight years. The move is in line with the company's
  five-year
  aggressive expansion plan in Asia-Pacific.
  French fund house Oddo Asset Management opened its first office
  in Asia
  and out of Europe and named Roy Diao as chief
  executive. Diao joined the firm in October from BNP Paribas
  Investment
  Partners. He operates alone in Singapore
  in the interim while the firm builds up a team. He repots to
  Nicolas Chaput,
  the Paris-based CEO of the asset management business.
  Perpetual Private, the wealth arm of Perpetual Limited, named
  Mark
  Smith as its new group executive, succeeding Nick Langton, who
  returned to his
  old position of general manager of private client advise. Smith
  is based in Sydney and reports to
  Geoff Lloyd, chief executive.
  Citi named former Australian first minister for superannuation
  and
  corporate law Nick Sherry to the newly-created role of senior
  advisor to securities
  and fund services, part of the firm’s transaction services
  division. The
  establishment of the role addresses predictions that Australia's
  super industry will
  triple is size by 2035.
  Newly-opened Australian financial advisory firm Shartru Wealth
  Management
  opened its first branch and named Dr John Hewson, Linden Toll and
  Andrew Meakin
  as its board members. Hewson is the chairman of Shartru Capital,
  its parent
  firm, while Toll and Meakin are executive directors.
  Standard Chartered Private Bank named Desmond Liu as managing
  director
  and head of private banking, Hong Kong and North East Asia, to
  lead the
  strategic direction of the business in greater China
  and north-east Asia. This is a newly-created
  Hong Kong-based role. Liu reports to Mary Huen, head of consumer
  banking, Hong Kong and to Rajesh Malkani, head of private
  bank,
  East.
  Credit Suisse restructured its global operations, effectively
  scrapping
  the roles of dedicated chief executive for Asia-Pacific and EMEA,
  among others.
  Osama Abbasi and Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad, who served as CEOs for
  those two regions,
  have left the firm. It is not known to where they are moving.
  Withers relocated Eric Wallace, its London
  partner, to Hong Kong on increasing demand for international
  legal
  services in Asia. Wallace was tasked to focus on international
  tax,
  probate, and trust and estate planning, with a particular focus
  on US
  persons
  and property.
  BNY Mellon strengthened its Hong Kong
  operations with the hire of Fred DiCocco as head of sales and
  relationship
  management, treasury services, for Asia-Pacific. DiCocco became
  part of BNY
  Mellon in 1998 and has held a number of senior roles in trade and
  payments
  since relocating to Hong Kong in 2006. His
  most recent role was as treasury services Asia-Pacific market
  manager.
  Northern Trust expanded its tax solutions capacity in Australia
  and New Zealand with the appointment of
  Zaf Kardaras as tax manager, supporting financial and tax
  reporting for clients
  in the funds management and superannuation industries. Based in
  Melbourne, he leads a
  team of 60 professionals specialising in fund accounting, unit
  pricing,
  financial reporting and tax. He joined from
  PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  Citi Hong Kong announced Weber Lo as the new country officer and
  chief
  executive for Hong Kong and Macau, effective 1
  January 2013. Lo assumes the lead role, replacing Shengman Zhang,
  who will
  continue his role as co-chairman for Citi Asia-Pacific. Lo is
  currently the
  head of the consumer banking business in Hong Kong and Macau,
  covering retail banking, investment, insurance, credit card and
  consumer
  lending, as well as commercial banking.
  Coutts, the private bank, continued its run of top-rank hires
  with the
  appointment of Joseph Lam as managing director and head of the
  private office
  North Asia, based in Hong Kong. The role is a
  newly created position. Lam joined from Merrill Lynch.
  Bell Asset Management, the Australian investment management
  firm,
  strengthened its senior management roster with three
  appointments. Jessica
  Grant is now head of business development, Jack Osborn is now an
  equity
  analyst, while Farhaana Desai is compliance manager. Grant joined
  BAM after
  serving a similar role with Macquarie Group and brings seven
  years of financial
  planning experience to the firm. Osborn used to be with Macquarie
  Private
  Wealth, while Desai held a compliance and governance post at UCA
  Funds
  Management.
  Franklin Templeton Investments bulked up its advisory services
  team by
  appointing Matthew Hattersley to the role of northern region key
  account
  manager based in Sydney.
  Hattersley previously worked for the likes of Invesco, Credit
  Suisse, Bridges
  Financial Services and BT Funds. In this new role, he is
  responsible for
  national key accounts and dealer groups partnerships in New
  South Wales, the ACT and Queensland.
  Manulife International appointed Steve Chiu as vice president
  for
  investment funds, Hong Kong. Chiu joined the
  firm from Bosera Asset Management, where he was managing director
  for of
  the Hong Kong business. Before that, he was managing director
  at AIA Wealth Management. He now reports to Michael Huddart,
  executive
  vice
  president and chief executive of Hong Kong.
  Northern Trust named financial services veteran Bo Kratz as
  managing
  director for the Asia-Pacific asset management business. Kratz
  used to work for
  Permal and ABN Amro Asset Management in Hong Kong and Singapore.
  In
  his new role, he leads the $50 billion Asia-Pac asset management
  team and
  reports functionally to Wayne Bowers and locally to Teresa
  Parker, chief
  executive for Asia-Pacific.
  Credit Suisse cut a number of roles in its asset management
  operations
  in Singapore,
  including some high-ranking executives. The bank did not expand
  on specific
  roles or give names, but WealthBriefing Asia can confirm that
  several people
  will be leaving. Credit Suisse declined to comment on the issue,
  but said that
  any changes will not affect the manufacturing of products.
  Coutts, the UK-headquartered private banking and wealth
  management
  firm, appointed Ray Chan as executive director, head of
  Philippines.
  Chan previously worked for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong,
  where he was responsible for building an offshore Philippine team
  targetting
  the ultra-high net worth market. He now reports to Ignatius KK
  Chong, head of Hong Kong.