HSBC Global Asset Management (GAM) has appointed Brian Heyworth as its global head of client strategy.
Heyworth was previously global head of the financial institutions group in global banking and will take up this new role in October.
The last person to have this role was Ruth Kelly, who left the firm in the middle of 2015 to become pro-vice chancellor for research and enterprise at St Mary’s University.
Heyworth will be based in London and report to global chief executive officer Sri Chandrasekharan.
He joined HSBC in 2006 and has been global head of financial institutions group since 2011.
HSBC GAM had $429.3 billion (€382.3 billion) in assets under management as of March 31, 2016.
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