CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Aberdeen Life
Aberdeen Asset Management Life and Pensions, the subsidiary of Aberdeen Asset Management, has appointed Helen Webster as chief operating officer of the firm, which manages £1.9bn of assets for pension scheme and insurance clients. Webster joins from Aegon Asset Management, where she was responsible for product development and distribution, as well as a director of the firm’s offshore funds business. Prior to that, Webster worked at Scottish Equitable.
Speechly Bircham
The City law firm has appointed Meriel Bennett as a partner in its projects team. Bennett, who replaces Andrew Walsh, spent the past five years as a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner, where she advised clients on social infrastructure PPP and PFI projects.
Jefferies
The investment bank has appointed Naomi Kumagai, Makarim Salman and Masahiro Wakasugi as senior equity research analysts, based in Tokyo, to cover the healthcare, financial services and insurance, and technology sectors respectively. Kumagai and Salaman join from Macquarie Capital Securities and Wakasugi joins from Alliance Bernstein.
Corac
Mark Crawford has become group managing director of the research group. He has resigned his role as company secretary, replaced by head of finance Stephen Harrow, but will retain the position of chief financial officer.
Colliers International
The real estate advisory firm has expanded its retail out of town team by appointing Laurence Edwards, previously head of out of town retail at Knight Frank, as a director to specialise in out of town retail development.
Street Corporation
Isabelle Brancart has joined the financial services group’s subsidiary State Street as head of sales and relationship management for Switzerland. Brancart joins from Deutsche Bank, where she managed the Securities Services Sales department for Western Europe in the Global Transaction Banking division.
Beachcroft
The law firm has appointed six new partners, taking its total partners to 161: Antonia Ford, Joanna Keogh, Simon Curtis, Andrew Baker, Tom Watkinson and Sean Doherty. The firm has also promoted Craig Dickson to director in the claims solutions team in Birmingham.