Standard Chartered
The global bank has appointed Roel Louwhoff as group chief digital, technology and innovation officer.
Louwhoff, has been chief operations and transformation officer at ING since 2014 and will be based in Singapore.
Michael Gorriz, who has served as group chief information officer since 2015, will retire in December to concentrate on his external board and advisory roles in Europe and Asia.
Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)
The professional body has appointed Benjamin Cranwell as business development and project manager in the Middle East.
He will be responsible for growing the CII footprint across the Middle East region.
Cranwell was previously client relationship manager Middle East at both CCL Academy and at the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment (CISI).
Prior to that, he had roles in personal and corporate banking at RBS in London.
Bank of Singapore
Paul Chua has joined the bank as its global head of wealth planning, with effect from 28 June 2021.
He will be based in Singapore.
Chua joins the bank after spending 19 years with UBS Wealth Management, where he was the head of wealth planning Singapore
He replaces Tariq Salem, who will relinquish his position as global head of wealth planning and focus exclusively on his role as head of the structured solutions group.
HSBC Asset Management
The firm has appointed Tom Banks as UK ETF business development director.
He joined the firm from JP Morgan Asset Management on 15 June and will be based in London.
Brown Shipley
The UK private bank has named Kath Cates as chair of the board of directors.
She replaces Rory Tapner, chair of Quintet Private Bank, who was interim chair of Brown Shipley.
Cates has served on the boards of several financial services companies, including at Brewin Dolphin.
During her executive career, Cates spent more than 20 years at UBS, where she held roles as global head of compliance and general counsel.
Quilter
The wealth manager has appointed Tosin James-Odukoya as head of inclusion and wellbeing.
Prior to joining Quilter, James-Odukoya was global lead of inclusion and diversity (I&D) at the mobile operator trade body GSMA.
She succeeds Kate Richardson who leaves to pursue studies at the London School of Economics.
Oak Group
The private client, corporate services and fund administration business has named Joe Woodward as managing director of its Mauritius operations.
Woodward has over 14 years of experience in the financial services industry and joined Oak in April 2020.
Mark Salmon, manager of Oak Mauritius, will join Woodward on the board of Oak Mauritius.
He joined Oak in 2007 and spent eight years in the Oak Guernsey office before relocating to the Oak Mauritius office in 2015.
Brewin Dolphin
The wealth manager has appointed Adam Jarvis as head of office for Winchester. He is currently a senior investment manager.
He will officially assume the role on 1st July 2021 when the current head, David de Kretser, retires.
Aubrey Capital Management
The Edinburgh-based privately owned asset manager has appointed Simon Pinner as a sales director to strengthen its distribution capabilities across its range of European, Global Conviction and Global Emerging Markets funds.
He joins Aubrey from Brooks Macdonald, where he held the role of discretionary sales director of specialist funds.
T Rowe Price
Investment analyst Jihong Min will take on the role of co-portfolio manager on the asset manager’s Asia Opportunities Equity strategy from 1 July 2021.
Min will work alongside Eric Moffett on the high conviction Asian equity portfolio.
As previously announced, Moffett and Malik Sarmad Asif were recently appointed as co-portfolio managers on T. Rowe Price’s Emerging Markets Equity strategy from 1 April this year – alongside long-tenured portfolio manager Gonzalo Pángaro.
Moffett will take over as lead portfolio manager on the Emerging Markets Equity strategy at the beginning of 2022, upon the retirement of Pángaro.
Invesco
The investment firm has announced that after 26 years of working together that Paul Causer and Paul Read will retire from their roles as co-heads of the Henley Fixed Interest team at the end of 2021.
The pair will hand over their leadership responsibilities to Michael Matthews and Thomas Moore.
Columbia Threadneedle Investments
The global asset management group has expanded its UK and European equities investment teams with the appointments of Kunal Kothari as UK equity analyst and Jamie Lewis as European equity analyst.
Kothari joins from Merian Global Investors, where he spent eight years researching UK companies across various sectors.
Lewis joins from Fidelity International and brings seven years’ experience as an equity research analyst, most recently covering European smaller companies as a generalist.
