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AP2 – Christina Olivecrona leaves AP2 after more than 11 years to set up our own sustainability consultancy, Olivecrona Sustainability AB.

As Senior Sustainability Analyst at the Swedish buffer fund, Olivecrona was responsible for initiating, developing and implementing sustainability in all investment processes across all asset classes.

She was a member of AP2’s corporate governance team and AP Funds Ethical Council, which focused on working with global companies.

While at AP2, Olivecrona also served on the board of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the PRI Advisory Committee on Sustainable Development Goals.

In 2019, when asked about her desire to invest responsibly, Olivecrona complained that a global carbon tax was still a long way off as it would “create tremendous momentum for the transition to a low-carbon economy”.

GAM investments – Mary Murphy was at for the newly created position of Head of Global Consultant Relations GAM investments. Murphy will report to Jill Barber, Global Head of Institutional Solutions, and will be responsible for building strategic relationships with global and UK local advisors spanning the full spectrum of the company’s investment capabilities as GAM seeks to grow its business through this channel.

Murphy is coming from BlackRock where she was responsible for leading some of BlackRock’s largest strategic investment advisory relationships. Previously, she was Client Director of UK Institutional Business at GAM until 2016 and has held several positions with other wealth management firms during her 15 year career in the industry.

In addition, the company strengthened its global equities team as it realigned its Lugano-based investment capabilities. it appointed Jian Shi Cortesi, Swetha Ramachandran, and Roberto Bottoli to join the team led by Mark Hawtin.

Shi Cortesi, who manages GAM Asia Focus and GAM China Evolution strategies, and Bottoli, who manages GAM Star (Lux) Merger Arbitrage strategy, will now join the global equity team with Ramachandran, who manages GAM’s Luxury Brands Equity strategy Join by Hawtin.

Hawtin has over 37 years of investment experience and is the manager of the GAM Star Disruptive Growth and GAM Star Alpha Technology strategies. He will lead this collaboration to create a broader forum for sharing expertise, knowledge and ideas for a team that will now manage approximately $ 2.5 billion in assets.

As part of this broader realignment, GAM will also provide the global equities team with additional research and analyst resources to capitalize on the continued success of equity strategies.

Schröder – The asset manager has strengthened its fiduciary management team with the appointment of a specialist business development director to meet clients’ investment objectives in outsourcing.

David Thomas joined by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) as Fiduciary Director of Business Development. Most recently, he worked in GSAM’s UK and Irish institutional client business and after 14 years was Head of Fiduciary Management for UK institutional clients.

In this newly created position, Thomas reports to Claire Glennon, Schroders co-director of the UK and Irish institutes.

Invesco – The asset manager announced that its ESG team has grown by eight in the past three months. These include Sudip Hazra, Director of ESG Research, Maximilian Kufer, Head of ESG for Private Markets, and Conor Harnett, ESG Client Strategy Manager.

Franklin Templeton / Aviva Investors – Franklin resources acquires Aviva investors” US-based investment grade lending team that currently manages more than $ 7.5 billion in institutional assets.

Senior Portfolio Manager Josh Lohmeier and Michael Cho are expected to move to Franklin Templeton Fixed Income by the end of this year Tom Meyers, formerly Head of Americas Client Solutions at Aviva, will also take on a newly created position as Senior Vice President, Senior Director of Investments and Strategy Development, Fixed Income. Meyers, Lohmeier and the entire investment team are expected to join by the end of 2021.

AXA investment manager (AXA IM) – Frederik Rubens has been appointed sales manager for the Dutch market for AXA investment manager. In this role, he will be responsible for further expanding the firm’s presence in the Netherlands and maintaining contacts with Dutch institutional relationships for core investments.

Rubens has a long track record in the world of wealth management, having spent 13 years at NN Investment Partners (and its predecessor ING Investment Management) responsible for acquiring and serving institutional clients. Prior to that, he was Senior Relationship Manager in Investment Management at Treuhandmanager MN.

Phoenix group – The UK long term savings and retirement business has expanded its wholesale pension team. Mark Fenlon has come together to lead the Annuity customer service team, Matt Richards and Rhian Littlewood join as Senior Business Development Manager and Jack Hill joins as Senior Pricing Manager. Charlotte Fletcher Also joins the firm as a business development actuary.

Fenlon joined the team by Avivawhere he was responsible for growing and leading both the BPA business and the reinsurance business. Richards joins the origination team after 10 years Pension Insurance Company, and Littlewood was previously on the Risk Management team at Aeon. Hill is part of the team. joined Mercer where he was a principal in the risk transfer team.

Aviva investors – Caroline Hedges became the head of credit. appointed Aviva investors, following the promotion of Colin Purdie to Chief Investment Officer, Liquid Markets, in June.

Hedges will lead teams in investment grade and high yield credit, emerging market debt, liquidity and securities finance. She will assume the new role from her position as Head of Liquidity and Securities Financing, Sterling Liquidity and Portfolio Manager. Previously, she was portfolio manager for a number of Aviva Investors money market funds and short-term bond funds.

Want – The Pension and Investment Advisory Company announced the appointment of a new non-executive director Suzy Neubert.

Neubert has more than 30 years of experience in capital markets and asset management, where he was responsible for sales at JO Hambro Capital and previously was Managing Director of Equity Markets at Merrill Lynch.

She said, “The team has impressive plans and my job will be to help them broaden their thinking to get the best results for our people and our customers.”

EIOPA – Frank reason, Managing Director of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority BaFin, is a member of the Board of Directors. been re-elected EIOPA. Grund was already a member of the management from December 2015 to November 2020.

The board of directors of the authority includes the chairwoman Petra Hielkema and six other members of the national supervisory authorities. The members remain in office for two and a half years, one re-election per member is permitted.

GIB asset management – Samantha Lamb joined as Head of Fixed Income when GIB asset management continues to expand its investment capacity to scale capital to support sustainable development. Lamb will begin her role on October 18th.

At GIB AM, Lamb will work to develop the company’s bond capacity beyond its existing lending and indexing capabilities in emerging markets. She comes from abrdnwhere she headed ESG, Fixed Income. As part of a team dedicated to $ 180 billion in assets under management.

Lamb previously worked as Investment Director, Fixed Income at Standard Life Aberdeen and has held positions at Aegon Asset Management, JP Morgan and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein over the course of more than 15 years of experience.

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