Architas hires four-strong adviser support team

Distribution arm reaches ten members

Architas has hired four new members for its distribution team, to help promote the group's risk-profiled, income and specialist funds.

The telesales and adviser support team includes: Carl Gbeho who joins from American Express, Matthew Hardy from Fidelity, Stephanie Lloyd-Jacob from Investec, and Sarb Thind from Axa Wealth. They will report to Ainara Perez, head of the distribution desk under James Bampton - head of intermediary distribution at Architas, and bring the company's distribution team to ten members. Architas - the investment arm of the global Axa Group - has launched the Architas Diversified Global Income and Architas Diversified Real Assets funds in the last year. Cedric Bucher, head of Architas UK fu...