UK

Sanlam UK, part of financial services group Sanlam,
appointed Craig McPherson as a business development manager for the north of
England as part of its regional expansion.

McPherson joined from Barclays Wealth & Investment
Management, where he was business development manager and responsible for
redeveloping the bank's discretionary proposition for the IFA market. Prior to
this, he worked at the AXA Group and also for Legal and General.

Sanlam also added Mike Middleton to its northern arm as a
financial planner, joining from Lloyds TSB Private Bank, where he was a wealth
IFA. Before that, he worked at Abbey National and Robson Rhodes.

AXA Wealth hired Skandia's former head of proposition Graham
Bentley as interim head of fund group relations.

Bentley is responsible for delivering customer and
IFA-facing investment solutions and ensuring that AXA secures the best possible
commercial terms for its investors.

Bentley was at Old Mutual and Skandia for over 12 years,
working in platform development and investment proposition roles. Before this,
he worked for M&G and Henderson.

GLG, the discretionary investment manager business of Man
Group – the world’s largest hedge fund business – appointed James Ind to its
macro and relative value team. He previously worked at Russell Investments.

In his new role, Ind helps to manage a total return
strategy, which aims to create and enhance long term wealth by investing across
a range of different asset classes within a strict risk framework.

Momentum Global Investment Management, the UK-based
business, added Mark Skinner to Momentum’s UK advisory board.

Skinner, with more than 30 years' experience in the asset
management sector, previously served as director of AMC search at KL
Communications. Before that, he was managing director at Newstar, as well as
holding a number of positions at various firms including Norwich Union, Baring
Asset Management and Steve & Prosper.

Standard Life Investments named Neil Odom-Haslett as its
head of commercial real estate lending.

Odom-Haslett spearheads the firm's entry into the market in
the UK and is based in London. He joins from Deutsche Pfandbrief Bank and
reports to David Paine, head of real estate investments.

UK-based wealth
manager HFM Columbus recruited Paul Jones, a former senior private client
adviser with Clydesdale bank. He brings client assets worth some £100 million
($150 million) to the firm, it said.

Epoch Wealth Management, a firm based in the western part of
the UK, appointed former charity boss Richard Barrington as chief operating
officer.

Barrington joined Epoch from the West of England Sport Trust
where, as COO he was responsible for the trust's charity, which was established
by Sport England to promote participation in sport across the region.

RBC Wealth Management hired Mike Moodie for the newly
created post of vice president and managing director, ultra high net worth, RBC
Wealth Management - British Isles and Caribbean.

Moodie, who has previously held the role of head of RBC
Wealth Management for the UK and worked at RBC for over 28 years, works with,
and reports jointly to, Paul Patterson, deputy chairman, UHNW, RBC Wealth
Management as well as Stuart Rutledge, head, RBC Wealth Management - British
Isles and Caribbean.

In his new role, he helps to lead the coordination and
servicing of UHNW clients based in the British Isles and Caribbean.

Kleinwort Benson, the London-headquartered wealth manager,
recruited Fadi Zaher as head of bonds and currencies within its fixed income
team.

In his new role, Zaher is responsible for the bonds and
currencies strategy, working alongside chief investment officer Mouhammed
Choukeir.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, the wealth arm of
German banking giant Deutsche Bank, appointed Mitch Matharu as head of
strategic lending, reporting to Balaji Prasanna, head of loan and deposit
products.

Based in London, Matharu works with the business' regional
lending teams to structure loans that require customisation to clients' needs
and cross-border execution.

Canadian-headquartered firm Canaccord Genuity Wealth
Management hired Stephen Massey as its new head of UK wealth management,
reporting to chief executive Neil Drake.

Massey is responsible for the UK-based private client teams,
including portfolio managers, wealth advisors, financial planners, paraplanners
and tax specialists.

Kinetic Partners, an international professional services
firm for the asset management industry, appointed Gary Ashford to its global
tax team, based in its London office.

Ashford joined Kinetic Partners from RSM Tenon, where he was
a partner and national head of tax investigations and dispute resolution,
building his reputation as a leading offshore tax risk and investigation
expert. Ashford, with more than 25 years of experience in the tax industry, has
held roles with Grant Thornton, Ernst & Young and HM Revenue & Customs.

First Names Group, previously the international division of
IFG Group, recruited Gary Hepburn as managing director of its Isle of Man trust
and corporate business.

Hepburn has been promoted to the role from client service
director, a position he held for nine years.

UK-listed Jupiter named James Clunie as manager of the
Jupiter Absolute Return Fund, with effect from 1 September.

Clunie, who joined Jupiter earlier this month, will take
over the £482 million (around $727 million) fund from Philip Gibbs, who will be
retiring from his current fund management role at Jupiter in October 2014.

Kleinwort Benson, the London-headquartered wealth manager,
hired former Macquarie managing director Marc Thatcher as a director of its
principal investments and advisory business.

Thatcher had been a managing director at Macquarie since
2008, having previously worked for Davidson Kempner Capital Management and
Rothschild.

Thatcher now reports to Nigel Spray, Kleinwort’s managing
director of principal investments and advisory, this being a business segment
which advises clients on business development, including raising debt, equity
or partnering with co-investors.

RBC Wealth Management recruited Daniel Ellis as head of
investments for the British Isles.

Ellis joined from HSBC Private Bank, where he most recently
served as managing director and head of the private bank’s investment group for
the UK and Channel Islands – a role which saw him run £12 billion ($18.1
billion) in client assets. Before that, he was based in Geneva as HSBC’s head
of structured products and before joining the bank in 2001 he worked for
Fleming and Lloyds TSB in Jersey.

Baring Asset Management, the London-headquartered investment
house which is part of MassMutual Financial Group, appointed Claire Fraser as
head of marketing and communications.

Fraser has been at Barings since October 2010, having joined
as head of EMEA marketing before being promoted to the global role of head of
distribution marketing. Before that, she was associate director, channel
marketing at Insight Investment, having previously held senior marketing roles
at Charles Stanley & Co and HSBC Asset Management.

Based in London and reporting to David Brennan, chairman and
chief executive of Barings, in her new role, Fraser is responsible for marketing
Barings’ range of pooled and segregated products across all channels globally
as well as having oversight of the media relations and corporate communications
functions.

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of
Aviva, named Liam Spillane as its new emerging market debt currency portfolio
manager. Based in London, he reports to Daniel James, head of global markets.

In his new role, Spillane is responsible for generating
qualitative input into the currency overlay process for Aviva Investors’ local
currency strategies.

Third Financial Software, the UK wealth management software
vendor, hired Roland Jones as its sales director.

He previously served as Odyssey's regional director for the
UK and Channel Islands.  More recently,
Jones was the head of the energy risk division at Financial Objects and
Temenos.

Charles Stanley bolstered its Birmingham office with three
new hires to its financial planning division.

Nigel Goodhand joined from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group,
where he specialised in advising high net worth clients in investment planning
and family protection.

Prithpal Saimbi joined the financial planning private client
team as a senior paraplanner. He previously worked at Clay Rogers &
Partners and before this he was at RSM Tenon.

They are joined by Joe Fletcher, who is doing a year’s
internship from Sheffield Hallam University, where he is reading International
Finance and Economics.

Butterfield Private Bank appointed James Mcneill and
Nicholas Rilley to the newly-created role of investment managers in its
London-based asset management team.

McNeill joined from Vintage Asset Management and Rilley from
Prospect Wealth Management.

iShares recruited Tom Fekete as head of product development
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Fekete is based in London and reports to
Joe Linhares, head of iShares EMEA.

He joined from Barclays Wealth, where he was EMEA head of
investment products and global head of foreign exchange advisory.

JP Morgan Asset Management appointed Nicholas Roberts as portfolio
manager for JPM Fusion Funds. He reports to Tony Lanning, lead fund manager for
Fusion.

Majedie Asset Management hired Richard Staveley as a fund
manager on its UK Equity Fund.

Staveley joined from River and Mercantile, where he was
responsible for running its UK Equity Smaller Companies and UK Equity Income
funds.

Pictet Asset Management appointed Eric Borremans as
sustainability expert.

Borremans replaces Christoph Butz, who will now focus solely
on running the Pictet-Timber Fund, which is co-managed by Gabriel Micheli.

Aviva Investors named Abigail Herron as head of engagement
within its responsible investment team.

Herron leads and support Aviva Investors’ fund manager
engagement with senior management across all holdings and asset classes.

Raymond James Financial appointed chief executive of Raymond
James Investment Services Peter Moores to the role of UK country manager.

Moores retains his position with RJIS and oversees all of
Raymond James' businesses in the UK, including wealth management and capital
markets. He is also responsible for the growth and coordination of all UK
business units.

Philip Lawlor will return to Smith & Williamson this
autumn. Lawlor will re-join Smith & Williamson to take up the role of group
strategist, with effect from 7 October.

Man Group appointed Andrew Horton as a
non-executive director.

Horton has been on the board of Beazley since 2003, first as
group finance director and currently as chief executive. Before this, he held
various financial positions within ING, NatWest and Lloyds bank.

Pioneer Investments appointed Yerlan Syzdykov to head of
emerging markets, bond and high yield.

Syzdykov remains lead portfolio manager for Pioneer
Investments’ emerging market debt fund and has overall performance
responsibility for all emerging markets and euro high yield investment
strategies.

Smith & Williamson appointed Juliet McDonald as an
associate director - marketing, to the firm’s sales and marketing team.

She joins Smith & Williamson from Liontrust Asset
Management, where she was the firm’s senior marketing manager.

RBC Wealth Management brought in Juan Pablo Cortes from UBS
Wealth Management as a director, Americas, based within the firm’s London-based
UK private client wealth management team.

Cortes works with internal teams and external advisors to
provide wealth management services to Latin American and Iberian high and ultra
high net worth clients resident in the UK or overseas. He reports to Martin
Heale, head of Americas, private client wealth management.

Towry appointed Martin Briggs to join its team, serving
clients in the South Wales region.

Briggs, with more than 30 years’ experience in the financial
services industry, has been running his own financial advisory practice in
Cardiff for the past 20 years.

Based in its Bristol office Briggs serves Towry’s clients in
Cardiff and the surrounding area.

Europe

Hamburg-based private bank Berenberg appointed Hans Wöll as
manager of its Munich
branch.

He joined
from Hauck & Aufhäuser, where he was head of private and corporate
business.

Gazprombank, the Russian bank, appointed Rustam Mursalimov as an equity
portfolio manager at its Gazprombank Asset Management arm, holding the position
of director.

Mursalimov was previously an equity portfolio manager at DEKA Asset
Management in Germany and
responsible for its investments in Russia,
Turkey, and Eastern Europe
within DEKA’s emerging Europe team.

European
investment manager Avoca Capital Holdings appointed Lord James Blyth to the
board as a non-executive director.

Before
joining Avoca, Lord Blyth was chairman of Diageo, a position he held for eight
years to June 2008. Prior to this he was chief executive and then chairman of
The Boots Company.

The
Chartered Financial Analyst Institute appointed Kate Lander as head of
education for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, recruiting her from
Northern Trust in London.

Lander
replaced Ed Bace, who left the Institute earlier this year.

Paris-headquartered Societe
Generale Private Banking Hambros hired David Greenwood as a private banker to
its Cambridge
team.

Prior to
joining Societe Generale, Greenwood
worked as an IFA for a year. Earlier in his career he was employed by HSBC
until 2006, after which he ran his own wealth management business in Italy for four
years.  

Societe Generale Private Banking appointed Olivier Gérard
as head of portfolio management solutions and strategy and asset
expertise, replacing Stéphane Wathier.

In his new Luxembourg-based role, Gérard oversees the
bank's portfolio management activities as well as the services and
recommendations provided by the strategy and asset expertise teams.

Azimut Wealth Management appointed four private bankers to
its team in Milan,
led by Paolo Martini.

The new
managers are Lorenzo Lamberti Scagliano, Cristiano Esclapon and Dario Giudici
and Paolo Dameno Rota.

Mirabaud
Asset Management appointed Alexandre Mignot to its external distribution team
in Paris,
taking up the post on 19 August.

Alexandre
Mignot will join a team responsible for selling funds and management mandates,
working with Thibault Amand, head of institutional sales.

London-based Henderson
Global Investors appointed Roman
Loebsch to join its Austrian team.

Loebsch
joined Henderson
from Conwert Immobilien Invest, where he was responsible for commercial real
estate transactions. Before that, he spent six years working in Hamburg with MM
Warburg's property subsidiary HIH Global Invest.

Roberto
Citarella joined Global Asset
Management as managing director of the firm’s team in Italy.

Citarella reports to the chief executive officer of HSBC
GAM, Matteo Pardi, along with being in charge of Italian and Swiss wholesale
clients.

Verno
Capital, a specialist fund manager focused on Russia and the CIS, added three
senior players to its investment team.

Natalia
Zagvozdina joined as head of research for the firms bottom-up investment
process, covering consumer and financial stocks.

She
previously worked as the head of Russian equity research at Renaissance Capital
Zagvozdina.

Tom Adshead manages
Verno’s long-short and long-only equity strategies in his role as portfolio
manager.

Adshead
began his career with the EBRD and CSFB in Moscow, and prior to joining Verno, he held
senior buy-side roles as a portfolio manager and head of research.

Fixed income
manager Elena Kolchina joined the firm in order to launch and manage its new
debt fund. Prior to this, she ran the Russian fixed income fund at Renaissance
Asset Managers from 2006 to 2013.

The French
global equity giant Amundi appointed Christopher Crystal as head of
distribution in the Nordic region.

The
recruitment follows the establishment of the firms’ representative office in Sweden in March
this year, with Bjorn Sandberg named as head of ETF client relationships.

Middle
East

Dubai Islamic Bank promoted Abdulla Al Hamli as managing
director and board member for the bank, while Dr Adnan Chilwan will take on Al
Hamli’s duties as the bank’s new chief executive.

Al Hamli
served as CEO for DIB since 2008 and Dr Chilwan has been DIB’s deputy
chief CEO since 2008.

Coutts, the UK
private bank, appointed Mark McFarland to the newly-created role of executive
director and global chief economist, based in Hong Kong.

Before this,
McFarland worked at Emirates NBD, where he was chief investment strategist and
head of the wealth management investment strategy unit. 

Switzerland

Rothschild
Wealth Management appointed Markus Gähwiler and Martin Troxler as client
advisors on its Swiss team, which is headed by Aitor Garcia.

Based in Zurich, Troxler
will concentrate on the Mittelland region and Bern
in particular, while Gähwiler will focus on eastern Switzerland.

Zurich-listed
Credit Suisse appointed Urs Zulauf to develop its tax compliance strategy.

Zulauf will
join the bank on 1 February next year, reporting to Romeo Cerutti, general
counsel, and Hans-Ulrich Meister, joint head private banking and wealth
management and CEO for Region Switzerland.

Swiss-headquartered
Mirabaud Asset Management appointed Simon Götschmann to its Swiss equity team
in Zurich.

Götschmann
joined Mirabaud from Helvea, where he served as an analyst covering Swiss
equities and medical technology.

International

Deutsche Bank bolstered its recently re-established trust
administration centre in the Cayman Islands
with the appointment of Stuart Bray to head up the new team.

Bray
transferred from within the Deutsche Bank Group and has over 16 years’
experience in the private client trust and company arena.

The Cayman
office of the offshore law firm Appleby appointed investment funds specialists
Jonathan Bernstein and Andrew Harding to its funds and investment services
team.

Bernstein is
a senior associate at Appleby and previously worked for Ogier.

Harding is
an associate at Appleby and joined from Appleby’s Isle of
Man office, where he has been advising on funds and investment
services for over eight years.

KBL European Private Bankers appointed Jonathan Grosvenor as general manager, global
financial markets, based in Luxembourg.

A financial services professional with more than 25 years' experience,
Grosvenor most recently served as the Hong Kong-based managing director, head
of corporate clients, at BBVA. He also spent over a decade at WestLB, most
recently as joint head of global financial markets Asia, based in Singapore.

Ernst & Young hired Mark Weinberger as its new global chairman and
chief executive.

Weinberger previously served as the global and Americas head of tax. He has been a
senior advisory partner for many of EY's largest clients and also served on the
global markets executive and global public policy committees. Before that,
Weinberger was the assistant secretary of the US Treasury - tax policy - under
President Bush, and he was appointed to the US social security advisory board
by President Bill Clinton.

London-based Thomas Miller Investment recruited Tom Richards as director,
while he also continues his role as head of private investment management,
offshore.

Richards joined Thomas Miller Investment in 2012 and is currently
responsible for the firm's private offshore business, which includes the
management of client assets and development of strategic professional advisor
relationships.

Richards also sits on the investment strategy and private investment
management portfolio review committees and heads the collectives research team.

International law firm Withers appointed eight new partners across the
firm’s international offices, while at the same time the firm, which has its
oldest roots in the UK, has elected a US citizen as global chairman for the
first time.

Withers Bergman, the name of the firm in the US, appointed Ivan Sacks as
chairman; he succeeds Anthony Indaimo, who stepped down after having served the
maximum two terms allowed under the firm's rules.

Prior to this week, Sacks was the US
regional senior partner and managing director of the firm’s New York office. He is a private client
lawyer and trusted advisor to international and domestic families of
significant wealth.

In the Asian offices, Stacey Devoy was made a partner for the family law
team in Hong Kong; in Singapore,
Fernando Gandioli made partner for the tax and estate planning team, while
Philip Munro was appointed to the funds, investment and business tax team.

In the US, Chi-Yu Liang
is now a partner for the tax and estate planning team, New
York, while Shannon Smith Retzke has been appointed to the tax
team in New Haven.

Lastly, Kate Landells is now a partner for the family law team in London, while her
colleagues Stephen Richards and Ceri Vokes have joined the contentious trusts
and succession team, and the funds, investment, trust and tax team,
respectively.

Mayfair Capital Investment Management hired Nick Shepherd as chairman of
the investors’ committee for Property Income Trust for Charities.

Formerly managing partner of Drivers Jonas and latterly vice chairman of
Deloitte, Shepherd left Deloitte at the end of May to pursue a number of
different interests and has had an involvement in the charitable sector
throughout his career, advising on property strategy and investment.

Law firm McDermott Will & Emery hired former senior Withers lawyer Ziva
Robertson as a partner in its international private client practice group,
based in London.

Robertson joined Withers in 2009, having previously led Mourant’s Cayman
trust litigation practice. McDermott Will & Emery has more than 1,100
lawyers around the world and some 65 lawyers in its private client segment.

Offshore law firm Carey Olsen promoted Andreas Kistler and David Crosland
to partner, bringing the total number of partners across the firm's offices in
the British Virgin Islands, Cape Town, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey and
London to 40.

Jersey-based Kistler is the newest partner in the litigation group and
Guernsey-based Crosland has been made up in the firm's corporate group.

Kistler joined Carey Olsen in 2005 from the commercial litigation
department of a major New
Zealand law firm. He spent several years
practising from Carey Olsen's London office
before moving to the Jersey office in 2011.

London-based Janus Capital International appointed Alan Glendon as sales
director, UK financial
institutions for the firm’s EMEA business, based in London.

Glendon, with 15 years’ frontline experience, joined Janus from Premier
Asset Management, where he was head of UK discretionary sales. Before
that, he served as sales director at F&C Asset Management and previously at
Investec Asset Management.

HSBC Global Asset Management hired former Investec Wealth and Investment
employee, Henry Flather, as a discretionary wealth manager.

Prior to joining HSBC, Flather managed Investec's multi-asset portfolios
for private clients, trusts, charities and pensions. Before that, he served as
a financial management executive at RSM Tenon.

Barclays, the UK-headquartered banking group, appointed Tushar Morzaria as
group finance director, after the current FD, Chris Lucas, announced his
retirement in February 2013.

Morzaria joins Barclays’ executive committee, reporting to group chief
executive Antony Jenkins. He will join the board as an executive director, with
effect from 1 January 2014.

New York and Chicago-headquartered Guggenheim
Partners promoted Tyler Page to head of hedge fund solutions for Europe, based
in London.

Up until now, Page had been working as global head of business development
for Guggenheim Fund Solutions, leading marketing efforts resulting in several
billion dollars of commitments to the Guggenheim hedge fund managed account
platform.

UK-based Stenham Asset Management hired Damian Brannan as a managing
director, heading the firm’s plans for capability growth.

Brannan has over 22 years’ investment experience and will be a member of
Stenham’s Investment Advisory Committee. Prior to joining Stenham, Brannan
worked as head of hedge fund advisory for the UK
and Asia, at Union Bancaire Privee.

HSBC has named George Crosby as president of HSBC Private Bank
International, based in Miami, Florida,
and responsible for all activities covering the Latin American markets in the US.

He reports to Marlon Young, head of HSBC global private banking for the Americas.

Crosby previously served as group head for Brazil
at HSBC Private Bank International, overseeing a team of bankers in Miami and New
York. It is unclear at this stage if anyone will
replace Crosby as group head for Brazil. 

New York-based investment bank Jefferies International made bond manager
Avtandil Gigineishvili its new head of asset management.

Avtandil Gigineishvili, who has been with the bank for almost two decades,
replaces Adrian Hope after the latter stepped down from running the US investment
bank’s asset management unit at the end of May.

As head of the international asset management division, Gigineishvili is
based in London,
leading services to institutional investors, pension funds and other investors
such as high net worth individuals.

The private banking arm of South African Nedbank appointed Andrew Bates to
head of its Middle East and Asia operation.
Based in the UAE, Bates will join Mark Leale, regional manager of the bank’s Dubai office.

Bates has been with the bank for over nine years, previously overseeing the
launch of its UK office in London. With the move to Dubai, Bates is taking
part in the bank’s international expansion plans into the private client and
intermediary sectors.

He has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry and
joined the bank from Lloyds TSB Bank in Miami,
where he was responsible for promoting banking and investment services to
clients in South America.

Psigma Investment Management, the UK-based asset manager, recruited Stewart
Howard and Chrissie Betts as business development managers for its business
development team.

Howard, with seven years’ financial services experience, joined Psigma from
Skandia, where he was responsible for protection marketing before being
appointed as a business consultant, helping financial advisors develop their
business propositions in the run-up to RDR. Howard was responsible for
implementing investment processes and strategies in advisory firms.

Betts joined Psigma from Punter Southall Financial Management, where she
served since 2012 on her move back to the UK. At PSFM, she focused on RDR
integration and management of PSFM’s marketing and communications activities.

Gazprombank, the Russian bank, appointed Rustam Mursalimov as an equity
portfolio manager at its Gazprombank Asset Management arm, holding the position
of director.

Mursalimov was previously an equity portfolio manager at DEKA Asset
Management in Germany and
responsible for its investments in Russia,
Turkey, and Eastern Europe
within DEKA’s emerging Europe team.

Asia Pacific

Christopher Todd Burgess was recruited by Swiss bank Pictet as a managing
director in Hong Kong.

Burgess had previously worked as head global international and EAM desk at
Julius Baer, the Swiss bank, and had also worked at Clariden Leu, where he was
head of North Asia.