Labuan Financial Services Authority
The Labuan FSA has appointed Encik Danial Mah bin Abdullah as director-general for a three year term, effective from 3 October 2017. He replaces Ahmad Hizzad bin Baharuddin.
Bin Abdullah is currently the deputy director-general of Labuan FSA, a position he has held since 2007. He joined the regulator in 1997 and has held various positions in the organisation.
Zedra Group
Eileen Yee has been appointed executive director of Zedra’s Singapore office, where she will focus on the development of the company’s pan Asian trust business.
Yee is a qualified lawyer and trust counsel, with over 20 years’ experience of the Singaporean high net worth wealth management sector. She previously held senior roles at Standard Chartered Trustees, Padang Trust Singapore, Merrill Lynch Bank and Trust Company and UBS.
Generali Investments
Generali Investments has appointed Francesco Martorana as its head of investments, effective 2 October. He replaces Anna Khazen, who is leaving the group after more than two years to pursue other opportunities.
Martorana joined Generali Group in November 2013 as head of group asset liability management & strategic asset allocation (ALM/SAA) for the general account assets.
Based in Milan, he will report to Generali Investments’ chief executive Santo Borsellino and lead a team of 85 investment professionals in Paris, Trieste, Cologne and Milan.
Prior to Generali, he held several management positions at Allianz SE and worked for Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase.
Bellwood Prestbury
Bellwood Prestbury, the specialist global insurance broker, has hired Adrian Henry from the Insurance Corporation of Afghanistan (ICA) to boost its high-risk occupations and remote or hostile territories insurance expertise, following a seven-year posting working as a chief underwriter officer in Afghanistan.
Henry brings with him knowledge of multi-line commercial insurance, gained through more than 30 years of professional industry experience in major markets and in remote, post-conflict and challenging high-risk environments.
Working with government, international donors and multiple industries, Henry was the architect of the first private medical scheme in Afghanistan. He is an expert in negotiating insurance and reinsurance support for significant liabilities, including general/professional liability, death and disability, life, kidnap and ransom, fleet, motor, property and contents, cargo, construction, trade credit, political risk and political violence coverage.
Prior to living and working in Afghanistan, Henry held senior positions within the insurance industry based in London and New York, and has unique underwriting and broking experience reinforced by on-the-ground international expertise.
Sanlam
Sanlam UK – part of global financial services group Sanlam – has accelerated the development of its private office proposition by appointing Jonathan Moon and Will Cayzer.
Moon and Cayzer both join after two years with Close Brothers Asset Management and assume the same roles of business development director and business development assistant, respectively.
Moon previously held similar roles at Tilney Investment Management and Tilney Bestinvest while Cayzar spent time at Fleming Family and Partners.
Smith & Williamson
Smith & Williamson has appointed Matthew Finch as an associate in its outsourced investment services business development team.
He joins from Barings where he spent eight years as an associate director in the UK wholesale distribution team. Prior to that, he was a business development manager for seven years at Credit Suisse Asset Management and looked after the professional adviser market in London and the south-east.
Reporting to Mickey Morrissey, head of retail sales, he will work alongside Julian Polnik and Lucy Mitchell to promote the firm’s managed portfolio service and discretionary fund management solutions to professional advisers.
T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price, the global asset manager, has appointed Michel van Mazijk to the relationship management team in the Netherlands.
He will report to Jan Eggertsen, head of mid- and northern Europe and will work alongside Wim de Ruijter and Auke Koopal, continuing to develop relationships with institutional and intermediary clients and prospects in the Netherlands.
Van Mazijk has 20 years’ experience in the asset management sector, predominately within business development and relationship management. He joins from Pioneer Global Investments in Amsterdam where he was head of Netherlands and Nordics. Prior to this he worked for Vanguard Investments Europe and spent more than 10 years with ING Investment Management, working in a range of roles.
VAM Global
Mooneer Salehmohamed has been named managing director of the Mauritian Administration and Trust Comapany (Matco), which forms part of the Vam Global group. He has also been appointed general counsel of Vam Group.
Salehmohamed, who will take overall charge of Matco’s head office in Mauritius, will become director, Vam Marketing and director, Vam Management Services. He was a non-executive director on the Matco board.
In his new role, Salehmohamed will be travelling across the various regions in which Matco and Vam’s other entities operate to develop existing and prospective client relationships.
A qualified barrister, he previousy held legal and regulatory roles at Fleming Family & Partners, Newton Investment Management (a subsidiary of BNY Mellon) and Eaton Vance Management (International), where he headed the compliance department within the UK, with responsibility for the Singapore office.
Aviva Investors
Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, has made two further hires to its multi-asset team. Harriet Reeves joins the investment strategy team as multi-asset strategist and Iain MacCormick joins the implementation team as multi-asset implementation manager.
Reeves joins from Comac Capital, where she was an analyst responsible for the fundamental economic analysis used to inform trading decisions across developed and emerging markets. Prior to this, she was a research analyst at Nomura.
MacCormick recently joined the team from Standard Life Investments. He has 12 years’ experience, primarily in dealing, focused on derivatives across multiple asset classes.
Aviva Investors also recently announced the appointment of Sunil Khrishnan as head of multi-asset funds. He joins the firm in October.
