Aviva Investors
Helen Driver has been appointed fund manager of Aviva Investors’ global equities team. She is based in London and reports to Chris Murphy, global head of equities.
In this new role, Driver is focused on identifying high-conviction large-cap global equity ideas for inclusion in both stand-alone global equity portfolios and as a key part of the firm’s multi-strategy proposition.
She has 16 years’ investment management experience and joins from Legal & General Investment Management, where she was fund manager on the UK real income builder fund. Prior to this, she held investment and client servicing roles with Standard Life Investments.
Brooks Macdonald
Alex Ford has left Quilter Cheviot and joined Brooks Macdonald’s bespoke portfolio service team in London as an investment director.
Ford has a broad experience of managing individual, ISA, pension, trust and charity accounts for high net worth clients and their families. He works closely with financial advisers, solicitors and accountants and has been appointed head of Brooks Macdonald’s Tier 1 Investor Visa programme in London.
Old Mutual Wealth
OMW has bolstered its regional presence in the UK with the appointment of Ed Peck as head of its southwest distribution team, while Russell Bignall will assume the same role in the northwest.
Peck was the head of business development and value at Standard Life. He has over 28 years’ of experience in the financial services industry and has served in a variety of sales and account management positions.
Bignall was the strategic director at BNY Mellon before joining OMW’s UK distribution team. He was hired by OWM shortly after the pension freedoms changes came into effect last year.
Both Peck and Bignall will oversee the sales and distribution of all products in their respective regions and will report to head of advisory sales Gary Dale.
Deutsche Bank
Jacques Brand, chief executive for the Americas, has advised Deutsche Bank that he intends to leave the company to pursue another opportunity. No official departure date was given.
A successor is to be announced in due course.
Hong Kong Federation of Insurers
HKFI has appointed its governing committee for the term 2016/2017. The position of chairman has been filled by Ronnie W F Ng of China Overseas Insurance, who has 30 years’ experience in general insurance and reinsurance underwriting in Hong Kong and overseas.
Stuart Fraser of Ageas Insurance has been appointed deputy chairman, having worked at both regional and operational levels in Asia for over 20 years.
In addition, the body appointed the following eight industry representatives as committee members:
Under the governing committee, there are two councils responsible for dealing with all technical matters concerning general insurance and life insurance respectively. The General Insurance Council is chaired by Pui‐leung Chan while the Life Insurance Council is chaired by Lennard Yong.
Hilbert Investment Solutions
The specialist structured product firm has appointed Dasale Mallawa-Arachi as business development manager to lead and head its sales effort in the UK. He joins from the Arbuthnot Banking Group, where he has held senior sales and business development posts since 2010.
Dasale started his career at Ernest & Young, followed by key client-facing roles across stockbroking and wealth management. He joined Arbuthnot in 2010 as a sales manager. Within the group he worked for Gilliat Financial Solutions, which designed and distributed bespoke structured investments to professional investors.
