Manulife
Manulife Hong Kong has appointed Rockson Leung as its chief financial officer. In his new role, Leung will report to Guy Mills, chief executive of Manulife Hong Kong, and Nigel Ke, interim chief financial officer, Manulife Asia.
Leung joined Manulife Financial in 2010 as deputy chief financial officer for Asia, with responsibility for the region’s actuarial function. Since 2014, he was chief risk officer for Asia.
Leung began his career in Australia before returning to Asia in 1999, where he held various positions with ING Asia, including of chief insurance risk officer, China, and chief financial officer, China.
Prior to joining Manulife, he was the deputy chief executive and chief financial officer of the Bank of China Group Life Assurance Company.
Sanlam UK
Sanlam UK has appointed ex-Close Brothers Asset Management head of private client, Penny Lovell, to launch its new Private Office proposition.
She will join the group’s executive committee and assume the role of chief executive of Sanlam Private Office, reporting to group chief executive Jonathan Polin. Lovell will be responsible for spearheading the new offering for high net worth clients with assets worth upwards of £1m ($1.3m, €1.1m).
At Close Brothers AM, Lovell spent the last five years as head of private client service. Previously she was managing director at Rothschild Wealth Management, and has held senior positions at Fleming Family & Partners and Coutts.
GAM
Gam has appointed Shizu Kishimoto to lead its sales and oversee its business operations in Japan as the independent active asset manager continues to build out its reach in Asia.
Kishimoto joins Gam as representative director and president on 14 August 2017. She will report to Rossen Djounov, who was appointed head of Asia and relocated to Hong Kong in May 2017.
Based in Tokyo, she was previously at Schroder Investment Management Japan where she was head of intermediary business. She formerly spent 13 years at BNY Mellon Asset Management Japan, where she was latterly representative director and president.
Brooks Macdonald
Ben Chandler has joined Brooks Macdonald as an investment manager it is Guernsey office. He was previously at Butterfield Bank where he has spent the entirety of his 18-year career as an investment manager.
In his new role, Chandler will work closely with Mark O’Connor, investment director of the Guernsey office, and be responsible for managing a range of discretionary portfolios and client relationships.
Intertrust
Intertrust has appointed Michael Johnson to the role of head of funds in the Channel Islands, with responsibility for developing the funds strategy across Jersey and Guernsey, with a focus on private equity, debt and real estate fund administration.
He was previously head of fund services at BNP Paribas and has also worked in London, where he specialised in overseeing outsourced investment mandates for Swiss Re Asset Management.
J O Hambro Capital Management
Active asset manager J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) has appointed portfolio managers Giorgio Caputo and Lale Topcuoglu to spearhead a global multi-asset income investment strategy.
Caputo, who will lead the global multi-asset team, started in JOHCM’s New York office on Monday. He was most recently a portfolio manager and senior analyst at First Eagle Investment Management.
Topcuoglu, who will be head of credit, is also based in New York. She will join in September after a 17-year career with Goldman Sachs and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she was most recently global head of alternative corporate credit and co-manager of the Goldman Sachs income builder fund.
Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth
Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth has recruited two partners to its Newbury and Chichester offices in the tax, trusts and estates team.
Joining from Hunters in London, Andrew Parry has expertise in lifetime and post-death tax and succession planning, wills, trusts and powers of attorney. He also has experience of advising the owners of landed estates and rural businesses, private individuals, trustees of private trusts and charities.
David Bird will join the firm’s Chichester office. He has expertise in tax and trust law and advises on tax planning for a variety of clients including business owners, shareholders in private companies and families with inherited wealth. He also creates trusts, wills and lasting powers of attorney and advises on existing structures.
KPMG
Auditor KPMG has hired Neil Macdonald as a managing director in its asset management practice. Based in London, he will report to partner and head of the asset management consulting team Tim West.
Macdonald previously held senior roles at JP Morgan Asset Management, BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors.
