Legal & General
Andrew Kail has taken over as chief executive of Legal & General Retail Retirement (LGRR).
He replaces Chris Knight, who is moving into the role of Legal & General group chief risk officer.
Kail joins LGRR from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he spent 30 years in a wide variety of roles including, most recently, as the head of financial services.
Phoenix Group
The long term savings and retirement business has named Diane Berry to the newly created role of chief data scientist.
She joins Phoenix on 1 April 2021 from global consultancy Bain & Company, where she built and led a multi-disciplinary advanced analytics team of data engineers, data scientists and operation researchers.
Standard Chartered
The bank has appointed Chandrima Das as global head of managed investments, based in Singapore.
Das will be responsible for building and growing the funds and discretionary portfolio management businesses.
She founded robo-advisory platform Bento in 2016, which was acquired by Grab in February last year.
After the acquisition, Das became the head of Grab’s wealth management arm Grab Invest, and she left in February 2021.
HSBC Asset Management
The investment firm has named Michael Stromsoe as head of investor relations for its alternatives business.
He joins from Macquarie, where he was responsible for strategic and operational leadership of the marketing and investor services team, supporting Macquarie’s global infrastructure and real asset business.
Crux Asset Management
The employee-owned investment management business has hired Ashley Dale as international sales director.
Dale was chief executive of consultancy and capital raising business, Cadogan Capital.
Before this, he spent four years at Harvest Global Investments, initially as chief business development officer and chief marketing officer in Hong Kong, before moving to the UK as chief executive in 2019.
