Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
The UK regulator has appointed Ruairi O’Connell as director of international.
O’Connell will join the FCA from the Home Office, where he is director of international.
He will be responsible for helping to shape the FCA’s international strategy as well as overseeing the FCA’s international engagement including matters arising from the UK withdrawal from the EU.
Gam
The asset management company has appointed Sally Orton as group chief financial officer.
She is currently deputy chief financial officer.
This follows Richard McNamara’s decision to step down from the chief financial officer role. He has been in the role since 2015 and will leave the firm towards the end of the year.
Nucleus
The platform has named Mike Regan as chief financial officer, subject to regulatory approval.
He will officially start and also join the board on 12 September. He joins from digital insurer BGLI, where he was chief financial officer.
Regan will take over from Stuart Geard, chief financial of Nucleus Financial and Gavin Howard, chief financial officer of James Hay. Both are stepping aside to consider a new challenge.
Ocorian
The financial services group has strengthened its executive team with the appointment of Gavin James as chief financial officer.
Most recently, James was chief financial officer for global technology and management consulting group Capco.
He takes over from Anthony Zarmakoupis, who has been in the role since 2019.
Sovereign Group
David MacDonald has been named as head of business development in Singapore at the financial services provider, according to his Linkedin profile.
He was head of business development at advice firm AAM Advisory.
Julius Baer
The private banking group has hired Jonathan Conner and Thomas Kloss as senior relationship managers to support business growth and regional expansion in Middle East & Africa.
Prior to joining Julius Baer, Conner worked at JP Morgan for 14 years, where he provided wealth management services to ultra-high net worth individuals and families from the Middle East out of New York and Geneva.
Kloss joins Julius Baer from HSBC Private Bank in Geneva, where he was responsible for managing client relationships across the Middle East.
Pimco
Richard Clarida is re-joining the investment manager as managing director and global economic adviser.
He will join in October and be based in Pimco’s New York office.
Prior to returning to Pimco, Clarida was the former vice chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Joachim Fels, managing director and currently Pimco’s global economic adviser, will retire from Pimco at the end of the year.
Hampden & Co
The UK private bank has hired Gill Sanders as a banking director.
Sanders spent over 20 years with Adam & Co, most recently as associate director of private banking.
Evelyn Partners
The wealth management and professional services group has hired Harley Jarvis as an adviser in its Chelmsford financial planning team.
Jarvis joins from Essex-based financial planning firm Forrester-Hyde.
Canada Life Asset Management
The firm has made a series of senior promotions across the business.
Rebekah Riddell has been appointed head of trading, a newly created role. James Stoddart has been appointed head of distribution for asset management, succeeding Ian Goulsbra, who retired as director of investment sales in July 2022.
Lastly. Sanjay Patel has been appointed director of global private debt.
