The business’s continued expansion of its platform team is part of a multimillion-pound and multi-year investment into its award-winning proprietary platform.

Willsher will lead and shape a new client support team as 7IM launches its Network Relationship Desk for supporting and developing network firm relationships. Willsher, who has more than a decade of experience in the sector, was previously at Guardian Financial Services, he led teams at Aviva, and served in a variety roles at M&G, the firm said in a statement.

Swinton will lead a team of platform relationship managers who operate across the UK to support partner firms and develop deeper engagements with them. He joins from M&G, prior to which he worked at Cofunds, Aegon and Skandia, building rich platform adoption and client relationship experience, the firm continued.

These two additions to 7IM follow a series of senior hires to the platform servicing and transformation teams with further recruitment underway as part of a drive to attract more new talent into the business.

7IM is an investment management firm that aims to help individuals, families, or businesses to manage their capital.

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London multidisciplinary law firm (NTAM), a global investment management firm with $1.3 trillion in assets under management, has just announced that it is expanding its global quantitative investment strategies team.

NTAM has hired 13 investment personnel, including quantitative researchers, portfolio analysts and quantitative developers in Amsterdam, in a move designed to enhance its quantitative factor platform and accelerate innovation into diversifying strategies. They will be joining NTAM’s quantitative strategies team under the leadership of global head of quantitative strategies Mark Sodergren and Guido Baltussen, head of quantitative strategies international, the firm said in a statement.

The new personnel, who will be joining NTAM in February 2025, include:

Maarten Smit – senior portfolio analyst. Previously, Smit was lead portfolio manager for quantitative equity strategies across developed and emerging markets at APG Asset Management.

Tim Zwinkels – senior quantitative researcher. Previously, Zwinkels was senior researcher in the quantitative equity research team at APG Asset Management.

Edmund Wadge – senior quantitative researcher. Previously, he was an expert quantitative developer at APG Asset Management.

Gijsbert de Lange – investment solution expert. Previously, de Lange was responsible for quantitative equity investment strategies across developed and emerging markets at APG Asset Management.