RWC Partners
Chief executive Dan Mannix is stepping down and leaving the business after eight years in the role.
Mannix joined RWC in 2006 as head of business development from JP Morgan Asset Management. He became chief executive in 2010 after the departure of Peter Harrison to Schroders.
He is being replaced by the firm’s head of business development Tord Stallvik, who has been with the firm since 2015 when RWC acquired a 15-strong team from Everest Capital. Stallvik is a member of RWC’s executive committee.
Stallvik has 25 years’ experience in asset management. Before joining Everest Capital, he was a president at Protégé Partners, an alternative investment seeding firm.
Mannix is remaining available to the management team for a short time to assist with the handover.
HSBC
Ibrahim Al Abed has been named as head of private banking in Qatar at the group.
He brings to the role over two decades of banking experience at HSBC, having joined the bank’s Qatar office in 1999.
During his tenure, he has worked across digital business services and global operations before moving to wealth and personal banking, after which he joined markets and securities services in 2004 to become the head of corporate sales.
Utmost International
The insurance group has promoted Brendan Harper to head of Asia and ultra-high net worth, interim head of EU technical services, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He joined Utmost International in November 2020, when he started as head of EU technical services.
Prior to that, Harper spent 22 years at Friends Provident International as head of technical services.
T Rowe Price
The asset manager has strengthened its global financial intermediaries (GFI) space with the addition of business development professional Cécile Mariani.
Based in London, Mariani assumes the newly created role of head of Emea GFI.
Before joining T Rowe Price, Mariani was head of global banks at M&G Investments, where she led the group’s GFI business development efforts.
Hargreaves Lansdown
The investment platform has hired Helen Morrissey as senior pensions and retirement analyst.
She brings more than 18 years’ experience of the pensions industry, most recently with Royal London, where she worked as a pensions specialist for more than four years.
Prior to that, Morrisey was a journalist working at Professional Pensions, Global Pensions and Retirement Planner.
Raymond James
The financial services firm has named Alasdair Pike as a senior investment manager to work alongside co-branch principals David Stevens and David Roblin at its Royal Exchange branch in London.
Pike spent the first 11 years of his career at Cazenove & Co before joining JM Finn in 2005, where he managed private clients, pensions, charities, and trusts.
He was a co-founder of JM Finn’s managed portfolio service for IFAs.
Blackfinch Investments
The Gloucester-based investment specialist firm has boosted its business development team with the appointment of Tom Jaffrey as investor relationships manager.
He brings more than a decade of experience within the investment management industry, having previously held senior positions at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Coutts.
