Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
The UK regulator has appointed Therese Chambers and Steve Smart as joint executive directors of enforcement and market oversight.
This is due to the imminent departure of Mark Steward on 13 April 2023.
Chambers is currently director of consumer investments in the supervision, policy and competition division at the FCA. Chambers will take on the role on 1 April 2023.
Smart joins from the National Crime Agency, where he sits on the executive committee as director of intelligence. He will join on 21 June 2023
The FCA has also announced the creation of a single legal function headed by current general counsel Stephen Braviner-Roman.
This will bring together the general counsel division and the legal group, which currently sits within enforcement and market oversight, in a single unified legal division.
Sarah Pritchard will take over executive responsibility for the FCA’s international work once Steward leaves, in addition to her existing role as executive director, markets, in the supervision, policy and competition division.
HSBC Global Private Banking
Henry Lam has been named as regional head of wealth planning and advisory for Asia Pacific
He joins HSBC from Credit Suisse, where he was most recently managing director, head of wealth solutions Apac.
Fairway
The financial services provider has appointed Dominique Burnett to Fairway Trust board and Jodie Gray as director within the private client team.
Burnett joined Fairway in 2022 as a private client director.
Gray joins Fairway from Maples Group, where she was vice president.
DWS
Vanessa Wang will become head of Apac from 1 April 2023, taking over from Holger Naumann, who will return to Frankfurt as part of a planned retirement.
Based in Hong Kong, Wang joined DWS as head of client coverage for Apac in September 2021.
Naumann has been head of Apac in the last four years and was based in Hong Kong and subsequently, Singapore.
Aviva Investors
The asset management arm of Aviva has appointed Dean Cook as multi-asset portfolio manager.
Cook joins following six years at M&G, where he was latterly multi-asset portfolio analyst.
In addition, Harriet Ballard also recently joined the team as multi-asset portfolio manager.
Ballard previously worked in the Aviva Investors investment strategy team.
Just Group
Yannis Katsis has joined the retirement planning firm as business development director, according to his Linkedin profile.
He joins from Epic Investment Partners, where he was part of the business development team.
MWA Financial
The London-headquartered advice firm has appointed Phil Young as non-executive director.
Young has held numerous non-executive and executive director roles over the past decade. These include Threesixty, Sense Network, Ludlow Wealth Management and Pareto Financial Planning.
Artemis
The fund manager has strengthened its global investment capabilities with the appointment of Natasha Ebtehadj as part of the team managing the Artemis Global Select open-ended fund and the Mid Wynd International investment trust.
She will be based in London and starts with the firm on 12 June 2023.
Ebtehadj joins from Columbia Threadneedle Investment (CTI), where she has been a portfolio manager on the Global Select team.
