Former Aegon director Charles Garthwaite has been appointed chief executive of fund hosting company Fund Partners.
Garthwaite, who was board director and chief risk officer at Aegon from May 2010 to December 2013, will take over from Peter Hugh Smith, who is to leave the firm. Fund Partners is the merged businesses of WAY Fund Managers and Fund Partners Limited (formerly IFDS Managers, bought by WAY last year). The firm is responsible for 120 collective investment schemes with funds totalling £5.6bn. Chairman Paul Wilcox said: "Charles has all the technical and management skills required, together with the integrity and user-friendliness to become the team leader we need at this critical point in ...
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