Germany

Jupiter Asset Management has hired Alexander van den Berg.

He will be responsible for discretionary sales primarily in the Frankfurt area and reports to Dominik Issler, who has been head of Germany and Austria since 2020.

Van den Berg has more than 20 years of industry experience and was most recently at Berenberg, where he was responsible for wholesale for Germany and Luxembourg.

As a result of the increase in personnel, the firm is restructuring its sales team in Germany. Delphine Kadel, who was previously responsible for discretionary sales in the country, will become sales director for institutional clients.

Spain 

M&G Investments has made a double appointment to boost its business in Spain and Portugal.

Rocío Iceta Barberá has joined the firm as director of business development with a focus on the Portuguese market, while sales assistant Héctor Peña will work alongside the customer relationship management team.

Iceta Barberá joined from Natixis Investment Managers, where she worked as sales manager. Peña previously worked at Allfunds as sales assistant and account manager.

They both report to Alicia García Santos, M&G’s Iberia country head.

Italy 

Edmond de Rothschild has appointed Nicolò Piotti as head of asset management distribution for Italy.

He previously worked as head of continental Europe for institutional and wholesale clients at Payden & Rygel, where he built the Italian business. He is based in Milan and reports to Marie Jacot-Cardoen, global head of distribution at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management.

London 

A new head of retail sales role at Downing will be filled by Mark Dunn.

Dunn’s remit will include selling the Downing Fund Managers product suite. Dunn’s last fund management role was at Franklin Templeton, as head of retail business development, which he left in 2021. More recently he filled a consultancy role for financial and actuarial business consultants Lane Clark & Peacock. Previously, Dunn was sales director at Carmignac Gestion (UK).

Singapore 

Janus Henderson Investors has hired Federated Hermes Asia wholesale distribution head Alex Ng to lead its sales function across Southeast Asia and Greater China.

Joining in the newly created role of head of intermediary sales for Asia ex-Japan, Ng will focus on global private banking clients. Starting in July, he will report to Andrew Hendry, who joined as head of distribution for Asia ex-Japan in February.

Ng has 15 years of industry experience and was last at Federated Hermes where he was head of wholesale distribution for Asia.

Switzerland 

Liisa Juntunen has departed PGIM for a newly created role at Mirabaud Asset Management, where she will be its head of distribution. 

The role covers all of Mirabaud’s markets and reports to Lionel Aeschlimann, CEO and managing partner of Mirabaud Group. Juntunen joins from PGIM Quantitative Solutions where she managed institutional business development in EMEA. She will be responsible for client relations, business development, marketing and product strategy across Europe, developing both retail and wholesale markets.

Zurich, Switzerland 

AllianzGI has appointed Mathias Peter as head of wholesale for Switzerland starting from June, Citywire Switzerland has revealed.

Christian Leger, former country head for Switzerland and head of European banks, left the firm to open Nuveen’s first office in the country.

Peter will co-head the business with Michael Schütze, who remains responsible for institutional sales. The titles of country head and head of European banks will end, and the team will work closely with Natasha Latich, head of global banks.

Peter joined AllianzGI at the start of 2019 and previously worked at Bank CIC, Capital Group and Lombard Odier Investment Managers.