Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Group has named veteran banker Ken Hitchner as its new chairman and chief executive officer in Asia Pacific excluding Japan.
Hitchner, who joined Goldman’s corporate finance department in 1991, is currently president of the bank in the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan. He replaces Mark Schwartz, who retired from the bank at the end of last year.
Manulife
Manulife Asset Management has hired Emmanuel Bucaille for the new position of senior managing director and head of wealth solutions for Asia wealth and asset management.
In the newly-created Hong Kong-based role, Bucaille will spearhead the effort to more closely align Manulife AM’s wealth solutions to customers’ financial objectives.
Bucaille will report to Michael Dommermuth, executive vice president and head of wealth and asset management for Asia.
Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered has appointed Demir Avigdor as managing director and market head, Africa & Europe. Avigdor has spent over 16 years at UBS in a variety of wealth management, advisory and leadership roles, with a focus on high net worth clients.
Avigdor starts on 30 October reporting to Ian Gibson, managing director, regional head for Africa, Middle East & Europe.
Northstar
Northstar Financial Services (Bermuda) has appointed Ryen Robinson to the position of vice president, actuarial, risk management and finance.
In her new role, Robinson will be responsible for the actuarial function at Northstar which includes valuation and financial reporting. She is also responsible for risk analysis and product pricing along with regulatory capital and corporate modelling.
Prior to joining Northstar, Robinson spent four years at Athene Holding, Bermuda, as a senior actuarial associate and member of the pricing team.
PwC
Elizabeth Stone has been appointed to lead PwC’s asset and wealth management practice in the UK. She replaces Mark Pugh, who has been in the role since 2014.
Stone has led the asset management tax team since February 2013, has been with PwC for 17 years and has over 20 years’ experience working with clients in both the UK and Australia.
In her new role, she will be responsible for the firm’s work with both asset and wealth management clients across audit, tax, advisory, deals and legal services.
Pugh will take up a new role as the business unit leader of PwC’s asset and wealth management business in Assurance. In his new role, he has been tasked with building on the success of the Assurance business in this sector, as it continues to grow against a backdrop of increased regulatory scrutiny, rapid evolution in technology and changing operating models.
GAM
Adrian Gosden has been named as an investment director at GAM. He joined the group to manage a new UK equity income fund that will be launched later this year.
Gosden has 20 years’ investment experience, and for 18 of those he has managed income funds and mandates, most recently at Artemis.
He is based in London and will work closely with GAM’s existing UK and pan-European equity teams.
