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Succession names group operations director

Succession Holdings has hired Sesame IT director James Stevenson as its group operations director.

deVere looking to ‘aggressively develop’ in UK, says CEO

deVere Group, a financial advisory organisation, is to ‘aggressively develop’ its UK presence, the company’s CEO Nigel Green said.

Vontobel to buy majority stake in TwentyFour Asset Management

Vontobel Asset Management has agreed to buy a 60% stake in London-based independent fixed income specialist TwentyFour Asset Management.

Slight drop in financial adviser confidence across all jurisdictions: Old Mutual

Adviser confidence in the markets has dipped slightly compared to a year ago, according to a survey of financial advisers by Old Mutual International, part of Old Mutual Wealth.

Billions on the move

Ray Soudah, founder of MilleniumAssociates AG, the international Corporate Finance and M&A specialist, writes about how resegmentation of markets is expected to dominate private banking and wealth management M&A – “$500 billion to one trillion to be resegmented ”

Amundi hires new European equities head

French asset management firm Amundi has appointed Laurent Ducoin as its new head of European equities.

PwC names new Channel Islands tax practice head

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has recruited Justin Woodhouse as its new head of its Channel Islands tax practice.

Standard Bank to rebrand private clients arm

Standard Bank has decided to rebrand Standard Bank Private Clients, its Jersey-based private clients arm, as Standard Bank Wealth and Investment.

Old Mutual Wealth, CII join hands to launch investment academy for advisors

Old Mutual Wealth has teamed up with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) to launch AF4 exam training sessions for advisers through its new Investment Academy.

Coral Gables Asset Management launches new long-short hedge fund

Coral Gables Asset Management has launched a new hedge fund, which employs a long-short trading strategy and seeks to exploit short-term and medium-term trading opportunities in the US equities market.