The latest moves in senior wealth management from across the US.

Aegon Asset Management
Russ Morrison has been named global chief investment officer at Aegon Asset Management in charge of managing its €170 billion (US $188 billion) fixed income investment platform and a team of 140 globally.

Morrison's appointment follows Aegon’s decision to integrate its Asian, European and US businesses under a single management board led by Bas NieuweWeme, who was elected CEO a year ago to drive the consolidation. The move combined regional investment teams into four investment platforms for fixed income, real assets, equities and multi-asset and solutions under a global CIO framework that manages €352 billion of AuM.

Based in Chicago, Morrison will manage the enterprise, joining AAM’s global management board and reporting in to NieuweWeme.

He has moved from Barings (formerly Babson Capital), where he spent 17 years in a number of roles, including president and head of fixed income, equities and multi-asset. Before that, he worked in the fixed income divisions at First Union Bank, Ernst & Young and North Carolina National Bank.

Morrison is replacing Kirk Buese, who took on the role in the interim and plans to retire from the business after 33 years of service at the group.

K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network
K2 Intelligence Financial Integrity Network has appointed the former head of Argentina’s Financial Intelligence Unit, Mariano Federici as a vice president in the firm’s Washington DC office. 

Federici is a global expert on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, and has worked in government, international institutions and the private sector for more than 25 years, K2 said in a statement. 

During his term in office as the President of Argentina's FIU, Federici held international positions at global AML/CFT organizations, such as chair of the Egmont Group of FIUs; regional representative for the Americas at the Egmont Group; chair of FATF's Heads of FIU Forum; co-chair of FATF's Risk, Trends, and Methods Working Group (RTMG); and co-chair of the Grupo de Acción Financiera de Latinoamerica (GAFILAT's) Mutual Evaluations Working Group. 

He has also been senior counsel for the IMF's legal department and regional advisor for the IMF's legal department in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing in both cases high-level policy, legal, and technical advice on financial integrity issues to IMF member countries as well as to the organs and staff of the IMF. In addition to his roles in the public sector, Federici served as a foreign associate for Sullivan & Cromwell's New York office and as partner and associate for leading Argentine law firms. He holds a JD from the Catholic University of Argentina and an LLM from the University of Virginia's School of Law.