Prudential
Bill Maldonado has been named as the chief executive of the firm’s asset management business, Eastspring Investments.
Maldonado has been serving as interim chief executive since April this year and, having joined Eastspring Investments in September 2021, has been chief investment officer since May 2022.
Prior to joining Eastspring, Maldonado served as the Asia Pacific chief investment officer and global chief investment officer for equities at HSBC Global Asset Management.
A chief investment officer for Eastspring Investments will be appointed in due course.
RBC Wealth Management
The wealth manager has appointed Rod Ireland as interim head of RBC Wealth Management Asia.
This in addition to his current role as head of global markets Apac for RBC Capital Markets.
He replaces Terence Chow, who has left RBC.
Redington
The independent investment consultancy firm has appointed Gavin Howard as chief financial officer.
With more than 30 years’ experience in financial services, he has been chief financial officer at both IFG Group and Nucleus Financial, as well as having held senior executive positions at firms including Partnership Assurance and Octopus Lifestyle.
Brooks Macdonald
The wealth manager has appointed Henrietta Walker as head of the investment specialist team.
She joins Brooks Macdonald from her senior associate partner role at Sarasin & Partners, where she was deputy portfolio manager of its MPS.
Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM)
Chris Hutchinson has joined the firm as senior investment manager.
He previously worked at Investec Wealth and Investment.
Janus Henderson Investors
The asset manager has made multiple hires in its Asia distribution team.
Alexis Lavergne has joined the investment manager as investment specialist for fixed income, while Andrew Cox has joined as investment specialist for equity. Both are newly created roles and are based in Singapore.
Meanwhile, Stephanie Joeson and Keith Chan have joined in Hong Kong as director and sales manager for intermediary sales respectively.
Lavergne joins Janus Henderson from H2O Asset Management, where he was client portfolio manager responsible for global macro fixed income and currencies strategies.
Meanwhile, Cox has joined Janus Henderson following a brief sabbatical. He previously served as head of investor relations and corporate development at real estate firm Globalworth.
Meanwhile, Joeson joins from Invesco, where she was senior manager for intermediary sales covering private bank distributions. She previously worked at Income Partners Asset Management and Citibank.
Chan was mostly recently an associate in the financial institutions group at Lazard Asset Management. He also worked at Bank J Safra Sarasin.
JM Finn
The investment manager has named Lucy Coutts as head of its York office.
Coutts, who has been at JM Finn since 2011, takes over as head of the recently relocated York office, effective immediately.
