The latest moves in wealth management from across Asia.

Cult Wines
Fine wine investment management services firm Cult Wines has appointed Eddie Kir as head of business development, North Asia.

Operating from Hong Kong, Kir will focus on expanding the company’s network of partnerships with financial intermediaries in mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan, including local and regional wealth managers, family offices and private banks.

Kir has more than 20 years of business development, sales and marketing experience at asset management firms, having worked in both New York and Hong Kong. He was most recently head of asset management, Asia at Commerzbank.

Refinitiv
Refinitiv, the data provider which is the subject of a $27 billion takeover by the London Stock Exchange Group, has hired Cornelia Andersson as global head of M&A and capital raising. 

Andersson, a member of the I&A proposition leadership team, is based in London. She will report to Pradeep Menon, managing director of investing and advisory. She has joined from Blackstone, where she was senior vice president, global head of research and market data, leading the firm’s market data and business intelligence functions globally.

In this role, Andersson will lead the ongoing investment in Refinitiv’s I&A franchise, including the build out of its teams and technological tools available to its banking customers by expanding multiple data sets and content into the junior and senior banker workflow. 

Separately, earlier this year Leon Saunders Calvert, the previous head of investment banking, was promoted as head of sustainable investing and fund ratings, a newly-created role that brought together Refinitiv’s ESG sustainable investing and Lipper Fund Ratings businesses.

Anderson is a chartered information professional, FIA qualified and pursuing an MBA at Imperial College, London. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Lund University, Sweden.