Alliance Trust raids Skandia for platform expansion

Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) has boosted its intermediary sales team from one to eight members as part of a push into the advised market.

Skandia's business consultants for London and the Midlands/ South West - Paul Judd and Steve Brooks - have joined as business development mangers. Scott Winters joins from Ascentric where he was responsible for sales strategy in the Midlands. David Duncan, formerly of Royal Bank of Scotland, has joined as an account manager, with Standard Life's Julie Maguire becoming head of marketing communications. In contrast to Skandia, that made 200 job cuts last year as part of its merger with Old Mutual, ATS's head of sales and marketing Gary Mcluckie said the firm was "bucking the trend" i...