Canadian Western Bank’s board of directors has named Chris Fowler as the company's new president and COO.
The head of Barclays’ retail and business banking operations is moving on up; he’s been named as its new chief executive. Antony Jenkins will fill the post vacated recently by Bob Diamond, in the wake of a scandal over attempts to manipulate LIBOR. “We have made serious mistakes in recent years and clearly failed to […]
RBC has appointed David Denison to its Board of Directors.
Several Capital Group Companies portfolio managers will move among investment units within the organization, effective August 31, 2012.
Ryan Bisch has been appointed as the leader of Mercer’s alternatives boutique in Canada. He’s a native Canadian and will relocate from Mercer’s office in Sydney to its office in Toronto. The move is effective October 1, 2012. Bisch’s responsibilities will include representing the alternatives boutique with current and prospective Canadian clients, as well as […]
Jordan Rosenberg has joined The Personal Coach team.
Standard Life has named veteran Jennifer Gregory as the incoming national vice-president of its group savings and retirement business. Her appointment is effective September 17, 2012, and she’ll be working in the Toronto office. Prior to this appointment, she worked at Great-West Life Assurance Company since 1993. Most recently, she was the vice-president of national […]
BMO Investments has appointed Guardian Capital as the new portfolio manager of its BMO Global Dividend Class, a class of shares of BMO Global Tax Advantage Funds. On September 21, Guardian will replace Kleinwort Benson Investors Dublin, and will assume all portfolio management duties in relation to the fund. Guardian takes a market-oriented, bottom-up, sector-neutral […]
Watt Carmichael has hired former HSBC Securities executive Martin Sims as its president and COO. Sims has twenty years of experience, and spent seven years at HSBC. He developed its full service investment advisory business. He was executive vice president, as well as national director and head of the company’s private client group before leaving […]
Patricia Perez-Coutts has denied any involvement in Westwood Holdings’ alleged lift out of an entire team of AGF investment managers. Only days after AGF launched a lawsuit against her and the company for “their [alleged] orchestration of an unlawful conspiracy”, the Globe and Mail caught up with her to get comment. She is both offended […]