UK

London & Capital, the wealth manager, appointed Mark
Estcourt as executive director, to head a new division, called Immigration
Investment and Wealth Management, and to develop the firm’s proposition for
those seeking a Tier 1 investor visa. Estcourt previously worked at the
London-based wealth manager, Merchant Cavendish Young, where he held the
position of managing director and wealth manager.

Brown Shipley, the UK
private bank which is now ultimately owned by Luxembourg-based Precision
Capital, appointed private client director Charles Fotheringham to head its Edinburgh office.
Fotheringham, continues to look after his own clients and took over from Graham
Auld, who retired at the end of August but who still has an ambassadorial role
with the firm. Fotheringham has been with Brown Shipley since December 2011.

UK-based regulatory consultancy The Consulting Consortium
named Simon Waugh as chairman of its board. Waugh was formerly group sales and
marketing director at Centrica. He also served as the chief executive of AWD
Chase de Vere and as managing director of SAGA Services.

OVS Capital, the investment manager which focuses on
European equity event-driven strategies, bolstered its business team with the
addition of two new members. Robert Moore joined to manage treasury and
finance, while Yvonne Daffy joined as a fund accountant.

Legal & General Investment Management named Colin Reedie
as head of European credit portfolio management. Reedie assumed his new role on
1 October. He has been with the firm since 2005, having previously been head of
investment grade credit fund management at Henderson Global Investors.

Meanwhile, LGIM appointed Marion Stommel as head of credit,
reporting to Roger Bartley, head of fixed income. Stommel replaced Christophe Tamet,
who left last October to take up a career opportunity in Geneva. Stommel joined LGIM from WestLB
Mellon Asset Management.

Henderson Property, the £12.3 billion (about $19.9 billion)
property business of Henderson Global Investors, promoted Carl White to serve
as fund manager for its €900 million ($1,160 million) European retail fund,
HERALD. White worked on HERALD since joining the firm over four years ago.

Henderson Global Investors promoted Jenna Barnard,
previously co-manager of various Henderson
funds, to deputy head of its retail fixed income team.  It also transferred Nicholas Ware from its
secured loans team to serve as director of retail fixed income.

Kleinwort Benson appointed Jason Turner as an executive
private banker within its private wealth management team. Turner was latterly
with UBS Wealth Management.

Luxembourg-based Lombard International Assurance appointed
Robert MacIntyre to lead its UK
team and spearhead the development of the firm’s relationships with the UK private
banking market. MacIntyre joins from Merrill Lynch, where he had been head of
wealth planning for EMEA.

Psigma Investment Management appointed Gerald Eastwood as
marketing and communications manager, recruiting him from PensionsFirst, the
pensions analytics firm. While at PensionsFirst Eastwood had been assistant
vice president of marketing.

Brooks Macdonald Asset Management, part of UK-listed Brooks Macdonald, bolstered its York office with the
addition of investment management director Haydn O’Brien. O’Brien joined the
firm from Maunby Investment Management, where he had worked since 2008.

The wealth and investment division of Barclays added to its
team in East Anglia with a
new senior hire for its Ipswich office. Andrew
Spivey joined as a portfolio manager to run discretionary portfolios in the East Anglia
portfolio management team (this team is part of the firm’s global research and
investments department). Spivey was latterly a private client manager at Killik
& Co in Ipswich.

London-based investment manager Hartmann Capital appointed
Roderick Collins as a non-executive director. As part of his role Collins will
be acting chairman of Hartmann’s wealth management division. Collins is a
director at JP Morgan Income and Capital Trust and chairman of the advisory
board at The Somers Partnership.

Stewarts Law, the UK and US-based litigation-only law
firm, boosted its family and divorce team with the addition of high-profile
divorce lawyer Helen Ward as a partner. Ward is known for representing the wife
in the famous Charman divorce case and securing her a record-breaking £48
million ($78 million) award - the highest determined by a UK court to
date.

Edmond de Rothschild Group launched a private wealth
advisory business in London.
The new business will target privately-held companies, entrepreneurs and family
offices, and Edmond de Rothschild appointed three founding partners to lead its
development. Christoph Ladanyi was previously a senior managing director at the
wealth and investment management division of Barclays, Richard Madeley was
latterly a senior managing director at JP Morgan Private Bank, and Henrik
Schliemann joins from Hawkpoint, where he was co-head.

Barclays continued expanding its Corporate & Employer
Solutions business, adding four new employee benefits consultants. The new
appointees were Anish Rav, David Pascoe, Mark Ramsook and Simon Pickerill. Rav
joins from Hymans Robertson, Pascoe from Gallagher Employee Benefits, Ramsook
from Mercer Consulting and Pickerill from Alexander Forbes. Rav, Pascoe and
Ramsook is based in London, and Pickerill is
based in Manchester.

SEI, the US-headquartered financial and technology
consultancy and processing firm, appointed Kevin Addison as managing director
and head of UK
asset management distribution. Prior to joining SEI, Addison
was head of wholesale at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.

UK-based Sarasin & Partners appointed a trio of former
GAM senior managers, Charles Smyth-Osbourne, Duncan Gordon and James Hutton, to
its private client team.

Legal & General Group appointed Mark Zinkula, chief
executive of Legal & General Investment - its asset management business -
as a group executive director of the company with immediate effect. Mark
Zinkula was named CEO of Legal & General Investment Management in March
2011, having previously served as CEO of Legal & General Investment
Management America since 2008.

Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management brought on board
David McKenzie as a managing director, recruiting him from HSBC Private Bank.
McKenzie had been managing director, head of the ultra high net worth business
and credit advisory teams at HSBC Private Bank, having first joined the bank
from NatWest in 2001.

Jupiter Asset Management named Andrew Clark - the former
head of business development for Schroders’ private banking arm - as its new
head of private clients and charities. Clark
is succeeding Colin Chisholm.

iShares, BlackRock’s exchange-traded funds arm, recruited
Ursula Marchioni to its EMEA investment strategy and insights team. She is a
director in London
and the team is headed by Stephen Cohen, iShares’ head of investment strategy
for EMEA. Marchioni was latterly head of ETF sales strategy for the asset
management arm of Credit Suisse.

London-based Premier Asset Management named Simon Wilson -
latterly of Old Mutual Asset Managers - as marketing director. Wilson was previously sales and marketing
director within the asset management division of Old Mutual and also held
various other marketing roles within the South African group.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co, the UK-based private bank,
appointed Kieran McDonnell - formerly of Coutts - as a senior chartered
financial planner. While at Coutts McDonnell was a senior financial planning
specialist within the bank’s international client group – a role in which he
covered markets including the Middle East, southern and western Europe and the US. 

Thomas Miller Investment appointed a head of the offshore
side of its private investment management business. TMI, a member of the
127-year-old Thomas Miller Group of companies, named Tom Richards to the role;
he joins from Maitland, where he was senior investment manager in the
investment services business on the Isle of Man.

James Hambro & Partners named James Horniman as a
partner, recruiting him from UBS Wealth Management. Horniman had been with the
Swiss banking giant’s wealth management arm since 2007.

Dalton Strategic Partnership appointed Luca Vaiani to its
multi-asset team as a portfolio manager, forming part of a six-strong team that
runs the firm's Melchior Global Multi-Asset Fund. Vaiani works with Rupert
Caldecott, chief investment officer. Vaiani was previously at Fondaco SGR,
where he managed the Fondaco Global Opportunities Fund.

Close Brothers Asset Management named Stephen Packter as business
development director for the northeastern region of the UK. Packter was
latterly with Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, where he spent six years
expanding the firm’s presence among the northeast’s intermediaries. Before this
he was sales manager for the northern region at Premier Asset Management.

Legal &
General Investment Management appointed Lance Phillips to the newly

created role
of head of active equities - a business unit which the firm is keen to grow.

Phillips was
latterly head of overseas and global equities at Standard Life

Investments.
The firm also named Lindsay Tomlinson as a non-executive director; he

had been
retired since 2011, having previously been with Barclays Global Investors

for over two
decades.

Joe Garner, head of HSBC in the UK and deputy chief executive of
the bank’s global retail and commercial business, is to leave in early 2013. He
has been with HSBC in the UK
for eight years but in his current role only since December 2010. Garner was to
be replaced in November by Antonio Simoes, who became head of retail banking
and wealth management for Europe at the
beginning of 2012, a role he kept.

Kames Capital, the UK
asset management arm of AEGON, hired Marcus Chandler as a senior portfolio
manager to boost its US
and overseas equities capabilities. Before joining Kames, Chandler
was a portfolio manager at LV= Asset Management,
responsible for US and UK
equities.

Liontrust Asset Management named Samantha Gleave as a fund
manager within its cashflow solution team. The firm said Gleave will strengthen
the research, analysis and stock-picking capabilities of the team that
comprises Gary West and James Inglis-Jones, who manage the Liontrust European
Growth, European Absolute Return, Income and European Absolute Alpha funds.

The UK Investment Management Association made four new
appointments to its board at its Annual General Meeting. The new additions are:
Hugh Mullan, UK
managing director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment; Mark Zinkula, chief
executive of Legal & General Investment Management; Andrew Formica, CEO of
Henderson Global Investors and Andrew Laing, deputy CEO of Aberdeen Asset
Management.

JP Morgan Asset Management in London appointed Stuart Podmore as head of
strategic alliances, reporting to Mike Parsons, head of fund sales. With JP
Morgan Asset Management since July 2006, Podmore was head of UK academy
sales, responsible for the commercial, strategic and tactical development and
delivery of the firm’s academy. Before that, he was head of marketing services
for Europe.

Invesco Perpetual appointed former Standard Life Investments
managers David Millar, Dave Jubb and Richard Batty to form a new multi-asset
group.

Arbuthnot Latham, the UK private bank, appointed Linda
Amili Clack to the new position of international banking director, head of
Middle East Private Banking. Clack has more than 30 years of experience in the
private banking and family office sector, most recently as Head of the
Mubarakia Limited Family Office.

Multrees Investor Services, which provides investment
administration, reporting and custody services to wealth managers, appointed
Jonathan Sokhanvari as chief operating officer. Sokhanvari joins from Vestra
Wealth where he was COO for five years.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co appointed former Coutts senior
manager Liz Bottomley to the role of head of private banking.  She filled the position left vacant at the
end of 2011 by Richard Dunn. Bottomley has more than 25 years of experience in
the private banking and wealth management sector, most recently at Coutts where
she held the role of senior manager/client partner in the international private
banking division.

Nucleus, the Edinburgh-based IFA wrap platform in which
Sanlam has a minority stake, appointed Stuart Geard as managing director. Geard
was previously finance director for Sanlam UK and an executive committee
member for Sanlam Investments and Pensions.

Mercer named Gaurav Garg as region leader, growth markets –
a newly-created role which covers the firm’s operations in Asia, the Middle
East, Africa and Latin America. Garg joined
Mercer from Chartis, the P&C (property and casualty) insurance arm of the
American International Group, where he was most recently chief executive and
managing director of Tata AIG General Insurance Company in India.

Close Brothers Asset Management appointed former Rothschilds
executive Penny Lovell as head of private client strategies. Lovell, who was a
managing director and senior client relationship manager at Rothschilds,
reports to Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer and head of bespoke
investment management.

Knight Frank elected Alistair Eliott as senior partner and
group chairman. He took over from Nick Thomlinson, who retired. Elliott started
on the firm’s graduate scheme in 1983 and was made a salaried partner in 1989,
proprietary partner in 1995, and has been head of the commercial division of
Knight Frank since 2006.

Keith Johnston, who had been communications director at the
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners for the past 10 years, left to set up
his own communications consultancy firm, PrivateWealth Comms.

Cordea Savills took on Kiran Patel as chief investment
officer with a global remit.  The CIO
role was previously held by Justin O'Connor, who did the job while also serving
as chief executive. O'Connor remains as CEO. Patel has over 20 years of
experience in the global property investment industry. He joined from AXA Real
Estate.

S&P Capital IQ appointed Roger Hirst as vice president
and head of European equity research operation, while also boosting its equity
analyst teams in London and New York. He has held senior posts at Bear
Stearns, Dresdner Bank/Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and Schroder Securities. He
is based in London.

Coutts named Philip Taylor as regional chairman for Coutts
& Co Channel Islands. He succeeded Pierre Horsfall, who has stepped down
after three years in the role. Taylor
is also a member of the local audit committee.

Investec Wealth & Investment made a number of senior
appointments having completed the transfer of the employees and client accounts
of Williams de Broë, which it acquired in October last year. Jonathan Wragg was
been named as chief executive of Investec Wealth & Investment (UK) having
served as chief executive of Investec Wealth & Investment and Williams de
Broë since May 2012. He continues to report to Steve Elliott, global head of
the firm’s wealth and investment division.

Tom Street
was named to the newly-created role of head of investment management. Street is
an executive director of Investec Wealth & Investment and was latterly
responsible for several of the northern based offices and the development of
the company's intermediary business. Meanwhile, Mark Stevens was named head of
intermediary sales – a role which has been created to reflect the firm’s growth
ambitions for this market. Stevens, who reports to Street, was latterly head of
marketing and development at Williams de Broë, focusing on intermediaries in
particular.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership appointed Calum Smith
to the newly-created role of head of global aggregate within its fixed income
team. He is based in Edinburgh,
reporting to Graeme Caughey, global head of rates. Smith joined SWIP from
BlackRock, where he was most recently a director and senior fixed income
strategist.

Signia Wealth added to its private equity division, naming
Ana María Harrison as a managing director. Harrison
was latterly executive director in global wealth management private equity at
UBS.

Barclays boosted its coverage of the African market, naming
Francis Esem Wood as managing director in wealth and investment management.
Covering the West African market, Wood is based in London
and reports to Henry Fischel-Bock, managing director and head of Central and
Eastern Europe and offshore Africa. Wood was
latterly managing director at JHX Management, where he was responsible for
establishing key relationships to drive business in Africa.

Canaccord Financial appointed former Lazard and Lehman
Brothers manager Alexis de Rosnay as chief executive of Canaccord Genuity
Limited, the company’s UK
and European operations that was renamed after buying Collins Stewart
Hawkpoint.

De Rosnay took the post left vacant by Mark Brown, who
resigned from the role; Brown continues working with Canaccord Genuity Limited,
as a consultant, until March 2013.

AWD Chase de Vere appointed Chris Copley as advice team
manager in London;
Copley was most recently a regional director with Prudential, having previously
worked in a similar role at Barclays Financial Planning.

Barclays bolstered the corporate wealth advisory team within
its corporate and employer solutions unit with the addition of James Wood and
Liam Fearon.

Wood, who is now based in Ipswich,
was latterly a commercial financial planning advisor at HSBC. Fearon, who is
now based in Birmingham,
joins from RBS, where he had specialised in corporate financial planning.

Ignis Asset Management hired Simon Cowan as fund sales
director, responsible for wealth manager and discretionary accounts in London. Prior to joining
Ignis, Cowan served as regional sales manager at Old Mutual Asset Managers.

Schroder Investment Management added to its multi-asset
investment and portfolio solutions team with the hire of two new senior
analysts, Matthew Joyce and Jingjing Cui. Joyce was latterly a European
equities analyst at Occam Asset Management, having previously been an analyst
on the Paragon Global Opportunities hedge fund desk for Polar Capital. Cui was
previously vice president, senior quantitative research analyst, responsible
for quantitative modelling of fixed income and currency portfolios at JP
Morgan.

Martin Currie hired Phil Raby as sales manager to develop
its UK intermediary business
in the north of England, Midlands and South West. Raby reports to Alan Burnett,
director of UK
intermediary business. He spent the last six years at JO Hambro Capital
Management.

Switzerland

Bank Sarasin named Frédéric Luyet as head of private banking
for the Swiss Romande region of the Alpine state. Luyet joined Sarasin from
Credit Suisse, where he was most recently deputy head of private banking for
the Geneva
region.

Basler Kantonalbank named Rene Burgisser as the new head of
its private banking business in Zurich.
Burgisser is taking over management of BKB Private Banking Zurich by the start
of April 2013. Roman Seiler was serving in the role on an interim basis and
continued to do so until Burgisser took up the position. Burgisser previously
worked for Credit Suisse for 17 years, but was most recently head of Bank CIAL
in Zurich for
seven years. He is currently vice-chairman of the board of AKB Private Bank
Zurich, a subsidiary of Aargau Cantonal Bank.

Geneva-based Mirabaud & Cie hired Pierre Pinel as chief
investment officer for balanced mandates and asset allocation funds in its
asset management division. He will also be head strategist for private
management. Pinel started his career with the Swiss banks UBS and Credit
Suisse. From 1993, he was at BNP Paribas in the asset management business in
various roles.

Carmignac Gestion named Katja Wiechers and Alexander
Bischoff as managers in its Swiss sales team. They focus on the distribution of
Carmignac’s investment funds through IFAs, family offices, banks, insurance
companies and other third-party channels. They report to Marco Fiorini, head of
professional clients in Switzerland.

Wiechers has over eight years of experience in the fund
management industry, including four years at BNP Paribas Asset Management in Vienna as senior sales
director. Before joining Carmignac, Bischoff's four-year sales experience
included time spent at Fisch Asset Management in Zurich as deputy head of Swiss clients and at
Falcon Private Bank.

Credit Suisse appointed managing director Serge Fehr as head
of the Geneva
region, with responsibility for the firm’s private banking activities in that
area and in the district of Nyon. Fehr succeeded Manuel Jetzer, who served in
the position for six years. Fehr joined Credit Suisse in 1996 and has 30 years
of industry experience.

Europe

Swiss Life in Luxembourg made two senior
appointments with senior managers who previously worked at rival firm Lombard
International Assurance. It appointed Loïc le Foll to head its private clients
unit. In his role, le Foll is deputy to Beat Reichen, the firm’s chief
executive in Luxembourg.
Joining le Foll’s unit as head of business development was Stephen Cotter,
formerly head of business development at Lombard International Assurance.

Jersey-headquartered law firm Bedell Cristin appointed
Valerie Georges-Thomas to head up its Tortola office in the British
Virgin Islands. Georges-Thomas advises on all aspects of
structuring and forming hedge and private equity funds, as well as on corporate
and commercial law transactions. Prior to joining Bedell, Georges-Thomas was a
partner with offshore law firm Appleby in the firm’s corporate and commercial
practice group.

Deutsche Bank named Pavel Teplukhin chief country officer
for Russia,
a role in which the development of the bank’s private wealth management
business is one of his main areas of focus. 
Teplukhin is known for being a co-founder of Troika Dialog, the Russian
investment bank.  He reports to Stephan
Leithner, Deutsche’s CEO for Europe. Teplukhin
succeeded Igor Lojevsky, who stayed for a few months before his eventual
departure. 

Liechtensteinische Landesbank announced top-level boardroom
changes with two members, Dr Felix Ehrat and Konrad Schnyder, stepping down for
personal and professional reasons.

MFS Investment Management announced new hires for the German
and Swiss market: Heiko Dahse and Karin Moritz joined the firm’s institutional
sales team.

Dahse, who holds the post of managing director, Swiss
institutional sales, reports to David Mace and is based in London. Dahse previously worked at Hermes
Fund Managers. Moritz, a director for German institutional business, is based
in Frankfurt and reports to Lars Detlefs, managing director, Germany
institutional sales. She joined from Vontobel.

JP Morgan Private Bank named Regis Molowny as head of its
wealth advisory unit in Spain,
to work with ultra high net worth families in that country. Based in Madrid, he reports to Juan Manuel Soto, head of JP Morgan
Private Bank in Spain.
Molowny was formerly branch manager of Merrill Lynch in Spain and Portugal.

Senior wealth management professional Wendy Buckley joined
Sinels, the Jersey-based law firm, as its new operations and client services
director. Buckley has worked in the industry for 25 years; most recently she
project managed the launch of local training consultancy business IBEX Education.

Rothschild appointed Gary Powell as group head of strategy
and corporate development, switching from his previous role as head of the
firm's UK
wealth management division. Powell now works with Nigel Higgins and Olivier
Pecoux, chief executives of the Rothschild group. Powell joined Rothschild in
1994 as an investment banker and transferred to the wealth business in 2006.
Mark Kary was  named head of UK wealth
management. Kary joined Rothschild in 2010 from Polar Capital, where he had
been CEO since 2005 following 19 years with Morgan Stanley’s wealth management
business.

Deutsche Bank appointed Christof von Dryander as general
counsel for its asset and wealth management segments as well as its private and
business client divisions globally. Von Dryander, who is also be general
counsel for Germany and Central and Eastern Europe, was to take up his position
at the bank at the start of 2013, holding a consultancy role prior to that
point. He had been a partner of the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton for over two decades.

International

Offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes hired ex-Ogier senior
lawyers as new partners in the British Virgin Islands
and rolled out a BVI litigation and insolvency practice. Michael Williams, who relocated
to the BVI from the Channel Islands, was joined
in the BVI by two new Mourant Ozannes partners, Rachael McDonald and Shaun
Folpp.

Fairbairn Trust appointed industry veteran Rosemary Marr as
a new senior director to head up its Jersey-based team. Marr has more than 30
years’ experience within the financial services industry, with experience at
managing director and director level of both banking and non-banking-related
trust company businesses. She is vice president of the Society of Trust and
Estate Practitioners and a former chairman of STEP Worldwide.

RBC Wealth Management appointed Steve Sokić as head of ultra
high net worth, trust, fiduciary and tax - a newly-created role for which Sokić
relocated from Jersey to Toronto.
He reports to Paul Patterson - who was recently named deputy chairman of RBC
Wealth Management for UHNW, international.

Jersey-headquartered wealth structuring company Hawksford appointed
Matt Haynes as new business development director. He joined Hawksford from
offshore law firm Ogier.

Bruce Weatherill, the chief executive and founder of his
eponymous Weatherill Executive Consulting firm, an executive consulting company
for wealth managers, joined JDX Consulting as an executive director. Weatherill,
a qualified chartered accountant by training, has an extensive track record in
the global financial services industry. He was a partner at
PricewaterhouseCoopers for more than 20 years, providing a range of audit and
consulting services to global private banking, wealth management and investment
management clients.

Middle East and North Africa

VAM Funds, the Luxembourg-domiciled fund manager, added to
its South African sales efforts, hiring Mark Van Der Walt as regional sales
manager. Based in Johannesburg, Van Der Walt drives
VAM’s funds business in South
Africa. Van Der Walt was latterly a sales
manager with Russell Investments in South Africa, where he was
responsible for regional sales and client service.

The Stonehage Group, the multi-family office firm, opened a
MENA representative office in Dubai.
It also appointed Brian Williams, director of family office development for the
MENA region as head of the new office. Before joining Stonehage in 2012, Williams
had fulfilled a similar role at Mourant Private Wealth.

Asia-Pacific

Nick Pollard, the
CEO of Coutts in Asia, stepped down to be replaced by the firm's London chief
of staff for wealth management, Michael Blake. Pollard moves into the
newly-created role as head of international learning and development at the
UK-headquartered private bank. He will continue to be based in Asia.

Blue Sky Alternative Investments, the
Australian alternative fund management firm, bolstered its private equity unit
with a new manager. Lachlan McMurdo takes the role of investment manager for
the PE division, responsible for building the firm's existing portfolio.

SJ Berwin named George Pinkham as head
of its Hong Kong office effective 1 October 2012. His focus will be on private
equity, corporate and litigation/dispute resolution.

PineBridge
Investments made four new appointments to its equity analyst teams in
Hong Kong
and Singapore. Kenneth Tang starts as director, portfolio manager, Asian
equities, based in Singapore, from Black River Asset Management. Dennis
Lam started as equity analyst, Hong Kong & China equities,
based in Hong Kong. He has worked at Franklin Templeton, Schroders and
Baron Asset
Management. Kim-Peng Ang started as equity analyst, ASEAN equities, also
based
in Hong Kong from IMC Investment in Hong Kong. Jacob Lee and Samantha
Kwong
both started as equity analysts, based in Hong Kong. Lee joined from
Deutsche
Bank’s investment banking division where he was an associate. Kwong was
at
Kim Eng. Additionally Wilfred Son Keng Po, managing director and
portfolio
manager, who was previously based in the Philippines, relocated to Hong
Kong to
oversee ASEAN equities portfolio management.

ETF Securities is
relocating Fred Jheon from the Tokyo branch, where he serves as Asia-Pacific
head, to lead the new Hong Kong business. Nigel Phelan also moves from the
Sydney office to become head of regional sales for ETFS.

Hong Kong’s Eden
Management Partners hired Julio Benitez and Sarah Lewis to focus on planning
and advisory services and tax planning, respectively.

Pictet hired
Pauline Dan to lead a new 20-person global emerging
markets equities unit. Dan joined the company from Samsung Investment Trust
Management, where she was head of Greater China equities. Pictet
did not reveal the names of the other newly appointed staff, although it said
that some would be transferred from its Europe offices.

UBS India named Nitin Jain as a new head
for its fixed income, currencies and commodities for India, reporting to Thomas
Siegmund, the head of the Asia ex-Japan fixed income, currencies and
commodities business at UBS.

L&T Mutual
Fund named Soumendra Nath Lahiri as a new equity head.

Australia and New
Zealand Bank hired a new managing director of wealth for Asia, from UK rival
Barclays. Bret Packard will start in mid-October reporting to Joyce Phillips,
ANZ’s global chief executive of wealth and private banking.

UBS hired a team of two from rival
Credit Suisse. Cindy Chang joined as managing director, cluster head, based in
Hong Kong. Stella Lau starts as executive director and is based in Singapore.

ABN AMRO is
planning to as much as triple its Asian business within the next five years,
with a focus on private banking. The group wants Asia to contribute 20 to 30
per cent of its global revenue within the next five years, up from 10 per cent
now. The growth drive will focus on Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo and
Sydney and will target private banking, among other sectors.

Coutts named Jonathan
Lee as a new head of treasury services for Asia, based in Hong Kong.

Coutts hired a
team of four for its Middle East business, to focus on wealthy non-resident
Indians in the region. Rishi Mansukhani joined as executive director from HSBC’s private banking division.
Mahesh Ram joined as a director from ABN Amro. Jai Prakash Paliwal joined as a
director from ICICI Bank.
Amit Tyagi joined as a vice president from HSBC’s
private banking division. The UK bank said that the new quartet will precede
plans to hire additional staff across the region this year.

Australia and New Zealand Bank made
three senior appointments. Matthew Boss will starts as managing director, products
& marketing, from Bank of America in North Carolina. Glenn Haslam started
as appointed general manager of transformation, a newly created role to
simplify the Australian business. He is currently acting managing director,
product & marketing. Jeremy Dean was appointed general manager of Australia
operations. He is currently general manager, business execution, for corporate
and commercial Australia.

Northern Trust named former Citi exec
George Hindmarsh as head of Asia-Pacific business development, to build
business with the region's institutional clients, including asset managers and
private banks.He joins from Citi Transaction Services, where he was most
recently director, head of UK investor services product.

Chi Lo, the chief executive officer of HFT Investment Management
(HK), the Hong Kong branch of BNP Paribas' Chinese joint venture,
announced his resignation to pursue other opportunities. Lo officially
leaves on 31 October 2012. He has been with the company since 2010 when
he set up the Hong Kong operation. He will be succeeded by Jelle
Vervoorn as managing director. Vervoorn joined HFT HK as executive
director in August 2011.

Australian Unity Investments, the funds management arm of Australian
asset manager Australian Unity, added four senior positions to bulk up
its investment management offerings. Jody Fitzgerald joined from UBS
Wealth Management, where she was previously the head of investment and
product research, Guy Sainsbury stepped in from Hastings Fund
Management, where he used to serve as director of property originations,
while Paul Ramsay was previously the head of researcher relationships
at AUI. The fourth appointment has not been announced to-date.

Global hedge fund group Alternative Investment Management
Association elected Philip Tye as the new chairman of its Hong Kong arm.
Tye is the founding partner and managing director of Dragonback
Capital, one of the member firms of AIMA. Also new to the senior ranks
are Anthony Byrne as deputy chairman and Michael Gibson as treasurer.
Byrne is the head of Asia-Pacific Prime Finance and managing director at
Deutsche Bank, while Gibson is a partner at Lim Advisors.

QIC, the Australian investment management firm, hired former AMP
executive Brian Delaney to lead an entire division at its Sydney office
as business director of clients, products and marketing. In this new
role, he reports to Damien Frawley, chief executive. He officially takes
up his post on 15 October 2012.

HSBC announced nine senior appointments for the Asia-Pacific
equities and prime services divisions in support of its core emerging
markets buildout. Tim Franks, from Bank of China International, was
named head of hedge fund sales in Hong Kong, Jeffrey Tan, from Nomura,
was hired director in equity sales, while Eric Ang and Russell Jacobsen,
both from Samsung Securities, joined as directors in equity sales
trading in Hong Kong. Also newly-appointed were Edward Yen, from Goldman
Sachs, as director of Taiwan equity sales based in Taipei and Jean-Paul
Linschoten as director of prime services sales, Hong Kong. David
Streatfield was named director in equity finance delta one sales, Hong
Kong, Adrian Harrison became director in prime services sales, Hong
Kong, and Ted Langworthy became director of equity finance delta one
sales, New York.

China Renaissance Securities, the Chinese bank, strengthened its
equities research offering with the hire of Wen Tianli (Eric) as
managing director and head of equity research based in Hong Kong. He was
also named head of telecom, media and technology equity research. Prior
to joining the firm, he was a director and head of TMT equity research
at Mirae Asset Securities, also in Hong Kong.

BlackRock, the New York-headquartered investment management and
advisory services firm, bulked up its Asian business with the hire of
Rowena Kwok as director and head of corporate communications for Asia
ex-Japan. Kwok joined from Fidelity Worldwide Investment, where she was
part of the corporate communications team in Hong Kong and the Asia
ex-Japan region for six years.

A team of at least five from Switzerland's Julius Baer who were set
to move to the Hong Kong division of Banca della Svizzera, joined
Lombard Odier instead, after BSI's parent was said to be looking to sell
the bank. They include Betty Xu, former senior private client partner
and team head for China at the Hong Kong division of Julius Baer, and
Amy Wei, senior private banker on the China team. They brought with the
three junior employees.

AMP Capital, the Australian fund management firm, expanded
international chief executive Anthony Fasso's job description with
leadership of the company's dominant Australian client base in Hong
Kong. The amended position was announced shortly after the opening of
the company's Hong Kong office.

State Street Global Advisors, the investment management division of
the US' State Street Corporation, named Amy Johnston as its new vice
president for wholesale sales based in Australia. Johnston moved from
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she served as national accounts
manager. Before that, she worked for Perennial Investment Partners and
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. She reports directly to Peter
Mitchell, the head of business development for Australia and New
Zealand.

ANZ Wealth announced the departure of investment management
executive Simon Botherway after less than 18 months in the role.
Botherway joined the company in April 2011 after serving as chairman of
the Financial Markets Authority's establishment board. The company said
it is 'reviewing options' for Botherway's old role. In the meantime, the
investment management team is led by Graham Ansell, head of fixed
interest, and continues to report to John Brody, managing director for
ANZ Wealth.

US-based financial services firm Perella Weinberg Partners announced
Daniel Chen as the new managing director and head of Asia. Chen is
based in Beijing. Prior to this position, he was senior vice president
at China Investment Corporation’s Special Investment Department.

Chase Corporate Advisory, the Australian financial services firm,
appointed Andrew Gale as the new executive director. Gale joined the
company from Count Financial where he served as managing director. His
appointment was announced alongside the hire of Chris Jordan, former New
South Wales chairman of KPMG, as executive chairman.

BlackRock relocated its head of retail business for Asia ex-Japan to
Hong Kong, and promoted a head of retail sales, to form a new team to
tap private banking clients. Lin-Yun Chang, head of BlackRock's retail
business for Asia ex-Japan, moved to the US investment manager's
regional head office in Hong Kong, from Taipei, underlining the
increasing importance of the retail segment to the firm. Heather Pelant
relocated from the US to start a different role as head of retail sales
for Hong Kong, Singapore and South East Asia. In this newly-created
role, Pelant is tasked to create and oversee a team focused on the
private bank client segment. She reports to Chang.

UTI Asset Management, the Indian mutual fund services firm,
appointed Sunil Mehta as the new chairman and director. Prior to the
announcement, local media reports said that Mckinsey and Co India senior
advisor Leo Puri could be tapped for the position. Both parties
declined to comment on the matter.

MLC, the wealth arm of National Australia Bank, named Scott Harley
to the newly-created role of executive general manager for corporate and
institutional wealth. Hartley was previously the general manager for LC
Corporate and Institutional Wealth and managing director of Plum
Financial Services since March 2009. He became part of MLC in 1999 and
has since held various roles in the strategy and marketing and
institutional businesses. He reports directly to Steve Tucker, group
executive of NAB Wealth.

Emirates NBD hired Aazar Ali Khwaja, Barclay Bank's ex-regional
treasurer for emerging markets and Africa, as its new group treasurer.
In addition to his old role, Aazar also served as chairman of Barclays
Bank's regional asset and liability management committee.

Mercer, the consultant, named Gaurav Garg to the newly-created
position of regional leader, growth markets, responsible for the firm's
businesses in Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Garg joined
the firm from Chartis, the P&C insurance arm of American
International Group, where he most recently served as chief executive
and managing director of Tata AIG General Insurance Company in India. He
reports to Julio Portalatin, Mercer president and CEO.

CITIC Bank, the Chinese bank, announced Dr Chen Xiaoxian as its new
director and chairman. Xiaoxian replaced Dou Jianzhong, who resigned to
focus on his roles as executive director of CITIC Group Corporation,
executive director and vice president of CITIC Limited and director and
chief executive of the parent firm CITIC International. Xiaoxian is the
director and president of China CITIC Bank Corporation.

Wealth management software maker Bravura Solutions appointed Andy
Gershon as sales director for life insurance solutions, Asia, based in
Hong Kong. Gershon was previously a global accounts director for Sungard
Systems. He reports directly to Roland Slee, managing director for
Asia-Pacific.

Former Julius Baer relationship manager Patsy Cheung was hired as
relationship manager for Swiss rival Lombard Odier's Hong Kong office.
She worked for Julius Baer in Hong Kong for three years. Before that,
she was at LGT Investment Management (Asia), the Asian arm of the
Liechtenstein bank.

Cayman Islands-based investment management firm Leopard Capital
named Richard Intrator as managing partner and chief investment officer
for its Cambodia business. Intrator was the executive in residence at
Stamford International University in Thailand. He assumed the position
after Scott Lewis, who resigned to become head of corporate finance at
Oryx Petroleum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Standard Chartered, the UK-headquartered financial services firm,
appointed Patrick Lee as the new head of origination and client coverage
head for its Singapore office. Lee assumed the position along with the
role of co-head of Singapore wholesale banking. He was previously the
South East Asia investment banking head at Nomura. He replaced Philippe
Touati, who left the firm in April 2012.

JP Morgan Private Bank named Jacqui Brabazon as head of Asia
marketing. Brabazon was the former global head of marketing and
philanthropy at Standard Chartered. She now reports to Paul Pullano,
head of international marketing.

Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer, the international law firm, relocated
Stephen Revell from Hong Kong to Singapore to take the lead role in its
new office in the city-state. Revell is joined by Gavin MacLaren, who
leads the Asian energy and natural resources practice. The firm's
arbitration practice in Singapore is now led by Lucy Reed, global head
of the international arbitration arm.

ABN AMRO Private Banking appointed Jacqueline Koo to the
newly-created role of head of Asian discretionary portfolio management
based in Hong Kong. Koo now reports to Hugues Delcourt, country
executive for Singapore and chief executive officer for private banking
in Asia and the Middle East, and Gerben Jorritsma, global head of
discretionary portfolio management. She was previously the head of
portfolio management for north Asia at Julius Baer.