British wealth manager Old Mutual Wealth has expanded its distribution team by hiring Ed Peck and Russell Bignall as its distribution heads for the South West and North West respectively.
Both will report to the company’s advisory sales head Gary Dale.
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In their new role, Peck and Bignall will be responsible for the sales and distribution of all products through their respective regional sales teams.
Prior to joining Old Mutual, Peck worked at Standard Life where he served as head of business development and value. He has over two decades of experience in financial services in various leadership, sales management and account management roles.
Bignall joined the company as business development manager from BNY Mellon in April 2015. He has experience in asset management and investment products.
Old Mutual Wealth managing director of UK distribution Scott Goodsir said: "Ed brings a vast amount of experience of working with advisers to help them support their clients and make the most of the growth opportunities.
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By GlobalData"The past year, since the introduction of pension freedoms, has seen advisers and their clients begin to come to terms with the new rules. I feel it is down to providers such as ourselves to give advisers the best tools, support and products to provide their clients with the best chance of positive outcomes and we have been constantly growing the team to offer additional support.
"This includes the doubling in size of our on-the-road technical specialists across pensions, investments, offshore and protection and also doubling our office-based team of adviser sales consultants," Goodsir added.
