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

Old Mutual Global Investors
Old Mutual Global Investors has made several new recruits across the UK equity and fixed income desks.

Claudia Ho has joined as UK equity analyst on the UK small- and mid-cap (SMID) team. She will report to the head of UK SMID team, Dan Nickols. Ho joins OMGI from Pelham Capital, a long/short European focused investment firm, where she worked as an equity analyst.

Patty Cao joins as assistant portfolio manager and Przemyslaw Pietraszek joins as credit analyst.

Cao, who reports to Delphine Arrighi, the lead manager of the business’s two emerging market debt funds, will be conducting sovereign credit analysis, providing trade recommendations on countries under coverage, and assisting with portfolio construction. Cao was previously at Aberdeen Asset Management, where she was a research analyst with the fixed income division.

Pietraszek, who reports to Lloyd Harris, lead credit fund manager, will review individual investment grade and high-yield companies, and will develop investment ideas for implementation in fixed income portfolios. Prior to OMGI, Pietraszek worked as an associate analyst at Moody’s Investors Service.