ING Real Estate Investment Management has appointed Bruno Cohen as cio for its French business.
Mercer has opened a new investment consulting office in Manchester, recruiting three staff members from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Paternoster, a regulated insurance company that takes responsibility for risks associated with companies’ defined benefit pension schemes, has appointed Jonathan Yates as a non-executive director.
Threadneedle has hired Jonathan Pitkänen as head of investment grade research.
StormHarbour, a global markets and financial advisory house, has appointed Thierry Sciard as a managing principal.
Tim Gardener, global cio at Mercer in London, will join AXA Investment Managers as global head of consultant relations this autumn.
Atkin Trustees Limited, a specialised independent trustee firm, has hired Martin Kellaway as an independent trustee.
Unilever has appointed Senior Investment Consultant Mark Walker from Mercer to join its global pensions expertise group in September.
Nick Anderson has joined Gartmore as head of research for global equities.
Goddard Perry Consulting has recruited Nick Mann as senior adviser.
Newton has hired Suzanne Hutchins to the newly created role of real return portfolio manager and investment specialist.
The GBP963 million Plumbing & Mechanical Services Industry Pension Scheme has advertised for a new pension sales executive.
The GBP16 billion Barclays U.K. Pension Fund has appointed Stergios Saloustros as head of dynamic asset allocation.
Mistra, the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research, has appointed a new ceo.
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has appointed Michael Dymond as Portfolio Manager for its Private Capital Funds division.
Baring Asset Management’s new Head of U.K. & International Institutional Sales Andrew Benton is looking to hire several new European emerging markets specialists to his growing team.
Olivier Renault will join Société Générale Securities Services this summer as its country manager for Luxembourg.
Janus Capital International has hired Steven Bilodeau to join its financial institutions sales team in German-speaking Europe.
Rune Sanbeck will join Dimensional Fund Advisors’ European operations as head of institutional sales and marketing in mid-July.
Natixis Global Associates, the distribution arm of Natixis Global Asset Management, has added two staffers to its U.K. institutional team.
Dominik Kremer is joining Threadneedle as European head of distribution. He starts on July 19 and will lead the group’s European sales team (ex-U.K.).
State Street Corporation has appointed Executive V.P. Nicholas Bonn as head of its securities finance business.
Pensions insurance group Paternoster has appointed Julie Chakraverty as non-executive director.
Investment administration and consulting group Bravura Solutions Limited has expanded its global team with the appointment of Andrew Belger as sales director for the Asia Pacific region.
BNP Paribas Private Equity has bolstered its senior team by appointing Jean-Marc Rivet-Fusil as head of its fund of funds team and promoting Stéphanie Egoian to cio.
A group of ex-Kazimir Partners bigwigs has launched a new investment management group specialising in Russian and former Soviet Union capital markets.
The alternative investment boutique Future Capital Partners (FCP) has hired Tim West as its new deputy ceo.
State Street Global Advisors has appointed Kristi Mitchem as senior managing director and global head of its defined contribution business.
BNP Paribas Private Equity has selected two new investment directors.
F&C has strengthened its distribution and sales team in Germany with the hire of Eberhard Glockner.
Jupiter Asset Management has appointed Miles Geldard and Lee Manzi as fund managers for global convertible and global multi-asset strategies.
State Street Global Advisors has appointed Alistair Lowe as cio for global equities.
Insparo Asset Management has bolstered its marketing team with the appointment of Emma Robinson as investor relations manager.
Boutique fund manager and financial consultancy group Managing Partners Limited has bolstered its team by appointing Tony Catt as operations manager.
KPMG has appointed Andrew Cawley as U.K. head of pensions.
Schroder Investment Management has appointed Michel Vermeulen as head of institutional sales for the Benelux region.
Future Capital Partners (FCP) has bolstered its business development team by appointing Alan Cross as business development manager.
Fund management firm GAM has hired Paul Udall as investment director to manage an equity mandate that will invest in environmental and sustainable investment themes.
Investment consultancy and asset management firm P-Solve has hired Martin Ross in a newly created role of associate director.
Dutch asset manager Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch lost four members of its fixed income team to rival IMC Asset Management.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has bolstered its Irish team, appointing Kevin Coughlan head of Ireland business.
Former Standard & Poor’s analyst John O’Brien has joined Australian Van Eyk Research (VER) as the new director of research.
Newton Investment Management, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Management, has appointed David Moylett as institutional account manager.
Richard Carson, the former global head of equity derivatives trading and sales at Deutsche Bank in London, is forming an asset management firm.
U.K. commercial property manager Mayfair Capital Investment Management has appointed Ned Pumphrey as investment director and head of transactions.
Investec Asset Management has bolstered its investment team with the appointment of Ian Vose as portfolio manager in the global 4Factor division.
MFS Investment Management has bolstered its distribution team by appointing Per Kunow as managing director of Nordic institutional sales.
Investment consultant bfinance has hired Vikram Aggarwal as senior associate in its investment consulting research team.
Investec Asset Management has bolstered its cross-border team, hiring Juan Marin as sales director for Southern Europe.
Investment manager Octopus Investments has hired Thierry Serero to lead its fund management team, in preparation for the launch of a European absolute return fund later this spring.
The GBP6 billion alternatives investment boutique Future Capital Partners has added Esther Lewis as a business development manager, the latest in a raft of new appointments.