The latest moves in wealth management across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

LGIM
LGIM has appointed Robert White to join its active equity business as fund manager of UK Special Situations Trust. The appointment is subject to clearance by the Financial Conduct Authority.

White has managed unconstrained, concentrated portfolios of 30-40 stocks comprising secular growth ideas which trade at compelling valuations.

Prior to this, White was a fund manager for a UK equity portfolio at Mirabaud Asset Management. Prior to joining Mirabaud in 2013, he was a senior associate within transaction services for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

LGIM also named Stuart Briscoe and Brad Jacobs. Briscoe joined the team in September as an equity analyst to work on LGIM’s UK and Europe growth portfolios, reporting to Gavin Launder. He was previously at ICM where he was an equity analyst covering emerging markets; he also held analyst positions at Sarasin and Henderson Global Investors. Jacobs joined LGIM in October as an equity analyst for the Global Income and Real Income Builder strategies and reports to Nigel Masding. He joined from Goldman Sachs where he was an associate in the investment banking division. Prior to this, he was an engineer at Anglo American.

London & Capital

Wealth manager  London & Capital is adding to its executive team appointing Ian Hunter in a new role as sales director. The firm said the new position is part of a wider recruitment drive to build a team of specialist wealth managers and expand the business from £3 billion to £5 billion Aum in the next four years.

It follows two partner promotions at the firm in October.

Daniel Freedman, partner and MD at the firm said, in a volatile market, the company is seeing “rising numbers” of clients seeking advice and support across a range of specific areas.  He said Hunter’s primary focus is to grow and develop new advisers and teams to provide “specialist advice to the HNW market.”

A 25-year veteran of banking and wealth management, Hunter joins from Sanlam UK, where he was responsible for growing the wealth planner team and improving productivity there.

The independently owned asset manager has £2.9 billion ($3.6 billion) of assets under management as of October 2018.