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The latest shifts and appointments for wealth management roles in the UK, other parts of Europe, the Middle East and select international locations.
Sarasin & Partners
Sarasin
& Partners has appointed John Muir (pictured) as business
development director for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Northern
England.
Muir, who has 27 years’ experience, brings expertise in business
development, sales leadership and relationship management across
the region. Most recently, he served as sales director at O-IM
Investment Services, where he worked with professional advisors,
wealth managers and business owners to increase sales. He has
also held senior positions at firms including Baron & Grant
Investment Management, Aubrey Capital Management and Rathbones.
Muir will be responsible for strengthening the relationships that
Sarasin already has in the area and developing more new
opportunities with professional intermediaries.
Muir’s appointment builds on a period of growth for Sarasin &
Partners, the firm stated in a statement. Across the UK, Sarasin
has also strengthened its regional presence, most recently with
the hire of
Aimee Searle as regional business development manager
covering Wales and the South-West.
“John is exceptionally well placed to strengthen our presence
across these regions, bringing a wealth of experience in business
development and a proven ability to work closely with
professional advisors,” Christopher Cade, head of UK sales, stated.
“His expertise aligns perfectly with our focus on delivering
long-term value for clients, and we see forward to seeing the
impact he will have as we continue to grow in the region.”
Sarasin & Partners is a London-based asset management group that
manages £17.4 billion ($23.4 billion) of AuM (as of 30 September
2025) on behalf of charities, private clients, intermediaries,
institutions, and pension funds from the UK and around the world.
Harneys
Harneys has appointed
Esmond Brown as a partner in its private wealth department in the
Cayman Islands office, with immediate effect.
Brown specialises in advising international high net worth
individuals and families on wealth planning, as well as assisting
trustees and private banks with all aspects of trusts, including
their establishment, restructuring, administration, and
succession planning. His expertise also extfinishs to wills,
probate, and estate planning. In addition to his non-contentious
work, Brown handles contentious trust and private client
applications in the Cayman Court. Before joining Harneys, he was
a partner in the private client and trusts team at another
offshore law firm in the Cayman Islands.
Welcoming Brown, Henry Mander, global head of private wealth,
stated: “His expertise and extensive experience will further
enhance our ability to serve clients, not only across the
Americas region, but also globally. His dedication to excellence
and his client-focussed approach align perfectly with our
commitment to providing innovative and pragmatic advice.”
Brown’s appointment follows a wave of partner hires at the firm
since the third quarter of 2025, including Ilona Groark, Ben
McCosker, and Wei Lee Lim in the Asia-based disputes resolution
team, as well as Stéphane Karolczuk in the Luxembourg funds and
asset management and regulatory practices based in Hong Kong.
Harneys’ private wealth team provides advisory services to
professional trustees, high net worth individuals and their
families, financial institutions, and charities, covering the
full spectrum of private client matters.
Franklin Templeton
Franklin
Templeton, a California-headquartered asset manager with over
$1.6 trillion in assets under management, has appointed Kayode
Adedoyin to join the EMEA Private Markets Wealth team. Based in
London, he reports to George Szemere, head of alternatives EMEA
Wealth Management.
In his new role, Adedoyin will cover distribution of Franklin
Templeton’s expanding private markets offering for wealth clients
across the region, working with regional distribution teams.
Drawing on his background in private markets, he will partner
with global private banks and wealth managers to broaden access
to the firm’s alternative investment strategies spanning private
equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure while
driving client education, market engagement, and relationship
management.
Adedoyin, who is a CFA Charterholder, was previously at Schroders
Capital, where he specialised in developing multi-private asset
solutions for institutional, intermediary and wealth clients.
Prior to that, he was part of the Schroders Solutions team, where
he gained expertise in complex investment strategy analysis and
delivering tailored investment solutions for clients. He also
contributed to product strategy initiatives, supporting shape the
firm’s offering to meet evolving client necessarys.
“His experience in evergreen product development, client
engagement, consultant relations and capital raising aligns
closely with our strategy to expand institutional-quality private
markets access for wealth investors,” Szemere stated. “Demand for
private markets solutions in wealth portfolios continues to rise
and Kayode’s expertise will be invaluable in scaling our
offerings and supporting clients across the region.”
Deutsche Bank
As part of its expansion plans in the Nordics, Deutsche Bank Private
Bank this week announce two imminent hires who will add to the
firm’s ability to advise ultra-high-net worth (UHNW) clients in
Denmark and Norway.
Steen Krage will join at the start of February and will be
responsible for the build out of the wealth management business
in Denmark, the firm stated in a statement. He will be based in
Zurich and report to James Whittaker, head of Private Bank UK and
Nordics. A Danish citizen who has lived in Switzerland for more
than 20 years, Steen brings more than 25 years of wealth
management experience, including 10 years as the market head for
the Nordics at HSBC. He joins Deutsche Bank from UBS where he
worked in the Global Family and Institutional Wealth (GFIW) team
advising some of the largest Nordic families.
Meanwhile, Morten Frimann Grøtvedt will join the Nordics team as
a relationship manager, focapplying on the Norwegian market and
based in its Luxembourg office. He will report to Dan Ingvarson,
who is based in Stockholm. Morten brings experience from UBS,
where he was a Director within the GFIW team, covering single-
and multi-family offices. Prior to that, he worked at Nordea
Asset Management as a product and RFP specialist and has
additional fund accounting experience from Citco and Northern
Trust.
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