Brooks Macdonald has hired offshore specialist Kristian Guest from Axa Wealth as a business development manager.

Based in the firm’s Taunton branch, Guest will be responsible to develop the firm’s professional adviser and intermediary relationships in the UK’s south west and south of Wales.

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At Axa Wealth, Guest was business development manager managing intermediary client relationships.

He left Axa in February this year, during a transitional phase for the life company.

Guest said: "I see this as a phase of exponential growth, with more and more advice firms outsourcing their investment propositions to discretionary managers."

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