People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Invesco, Penningtons Manches, Others
The latest moves in wealth management across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Invesco
Invesco has appointed
Hamid Asseffar to join its London-based exchange traded fund
business development team. Asseffar reports to Ravinder Azad at
Invesco and will concentrate on growing business with UK asset
managers and family offices.
Asseffar previously worked at Amundi, the European business,
where he was a sales and marketing associate within the ETF,
Indexing & Smart Beta team. Prior to this, he worked in the
trading strategy team at Credit Suisse in London. Hamid holds a
masters in financial economics and investment management from
EDHEC Business School.
Among recent appointments, Invesco hired Wayne Parker and Deepak
Bharti to join its fixed income ETF business.
Penningtons Manches
Penningtons
Manches has hired private client partner Ryan Myint into its
private wealth group.
Based in the London office, Myint joined from Taylor Wessing,
where he was a partner in the international private client group
for over eight years, including a secondment to the Singapore
office from 2012 to 2015. Before joining Taylor Wessing in 2004,
he practised at Withers and then Clifford Chance.
Specialising in wealth structuring, trusts and succession, Myint
acts for entrepreneurs, business owners, fund managers, property
developers, high profile international families, offshore trust
companies and private banks.
Myint’s appointment to the team follows the recent arrival of
three new private client specialists: Emma McCarthy, Rebecca
Goldring and Nathan Greenwood.
Baillie Gifford
Baillie
Gifford, the Edinburgh based investment management
partnership, has promoted Helen Xiong to co-manager of the
Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust.
Xiong moves from her role as deputy manager on the trust to
co-manager alongside Gary Robinson. The pair, both part of
Baillie Gifford’s US Equities team, have managed the trust since
its launch in March 2018. Xiong Helen joined Baillie Gifford in
2008 as a graduate from the University of Cambridge, and has
spent time working in its Developed Asia, UK, North America,
Emerging Markets, and Global Equity teams before assuming her
current role as an investment manager within the US Equities
team.
