Legg Mason has appointed Rick Andrews as head of International Marketing, reporting to Matthew Schiffman, global head of Marketing. Andrews joins from Aviva Investors, prior to that he worked among others at Blackrock, Credit Suisse, Cofunds and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Source: Investment Europe. Read full article
Read more →Aviva Investors has appointed Friends Life chief investment officer Mark Versey as director of client solutions. Versey will take up the role in January and report to incoming chief executive Euan Munro. Munro departed Standard Life Investments in July to take up the role. Versey was at
Read more →The IMA has reshuffled its board, swapping senior representatives from Newton, Lazard and Aviva Investors for others from Fidelity, LGIM, Henderson and Aberdeen. Hugh Mullan, UK managing director at Fidelity, who this week was named responsible for Fidelity FundsNetwork following the departure of David White, is one
Read more →Ignis Asset Management has named Jeremy Soutter as global head of product development, reporting to global distribution head Claude Chene. Soutter will join Ignis from next month and was previously global head of products at Aviva, before leaving in April among a number of changes at Aviva’s asset
Read more →Threadneedle, has appointed Moira Gorman in the new role of Client Relationship Director with dedicated responsibility for Local Authority clients. Moira reports to Andrew Nicoll, Global Head of Client Service. Moira will take responsibility for developing Threadneedle’s relationships with Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) clients in the UK, bringing
Read more →Aviva Investors has named Paul Abberley as interim chief executive, following the departure of Alain Dromer. The company will continue to recruit for a permenant CEO internally and externally. Abberley, who is currently chief executive of Aviva Investors London and global investment solutions, will assume responsibility for
Read more →Andrew Moss has resigned as chief executive of Aviva following an investor dispute over pay and performance. Mr Moss, 54, has resigned with immediate effect. His executive responsibilities will be taken over by former ANZ chief executive John McFarlane, the incoming chairman. Further reading: Aviva CEO third
Read more →Alain Dromer, chief executive of Aviva Investors, is set to leave Aviva as part of the group’s “new, flatter organisation”. Alain Dromer The move is part of a wider strategy to “simplify and bring more focus to the business”. A successor to Dromer will be sought,
Read more →Shaun Meadows, group product and channel strategy director at Aviva Investors, has left the group “to pursue other opportunities”, according to the group. His responsibilities have been assumed by other senior members of the global business development team. Meadows took up the role in May 2010 and
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