Securities and Futures Commission
Hong Kong’s SFC has appointed Christina Choi as acting head of investment products, effective 19 June. She is currently senior director of the division.
Choi will oversee the investment products division pending the appointment of a permanent replacement for Julia Leung who will become executive director of Intermediaries on 19 June 2016.
It was announced in February that Leung would replace James Shipton as executive director of the intermediaries division.
Franklin Templeton
The asset management firm has appointed Ricky Chau to its multi asset team in Hong Kong. In his new role Chau will be responsible for multi asset portfolio management and product solutions within Asia.
He will work closely with different functional units and investment offices to help deliver fund products that are designed to meet the income and total return needs of Asian investors.
Hermes Investment Management
Gareth Davies has been named head of client relationship management for Hermes. Based in London, he will report to Mark Miller, head of UK & MENA Institutional.
Davies will be responsible for all third party client relationships across investment teams, client geographies and distribution channels. Furthermore, he will lead the development of a new client relationship and service model for Hermes.
Prior to joining Hermes, Davies was a managing director at BlackRock Investment Management, with previous roles including head of UK client relationship management at Henderson Global Investors and vice president at JP Morgan Asset Management.
Kames Capital
Kames Capital has hired Rory Sandilands as investment manager within the firm’s fixed income team. Based in Edinburgh, Sandilands will report into investment manager Stephen Snowden.
Sandilands has 14 years’ investment banking experience with a background in credit sales across investment grade, high yield, derivatives and asset backed securities.
He previously worked at Goldman Sachs where he spent 10 years as an executive director in the firm’s credit sales team. Before Goldman Sachs, Sandilands was at Morgan Stanley where he was vice president in fixed income credit sales.
Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth
The legal and wealth advisory business has appointed immigration solicitor Ben Xu. In his new role Xu will focus on providing immigration advice to international high net worth individuals and businesses.
In his previous role Xu specialised in advising a combination of private and corporate clients on a wide range of immigration matters; including, among others, Tier 1 (Entrepreneur/Investor) and Tier 2 (General/Intra Company Transfer) visas, representative of overseas business, dependents’ visas, indefinite leave to remain, naturalisation, immigration appeals, and judicial reviews.
