UBS AM hires Lucy Thomas as new head of sustainable investing

Former head of investment stewardship at TCorp

Elliot Gulliver-Needham
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UBS Asset Management has appointed Lucy Thomas as head of sustainable investing, which will see her leading the delivery of UBS AM’s sustainability and impact strategy.

Thomas joins the company from TCorp, the financial markets partner of the New South Wales government in Australia, where she was head of investment stewardship. Prior to that, she worked as global head of sustainable investment at Willis Towers Watson. She began her career as an analyst on the graduate program at Morgan Stanley. She will report to Barry Gill, head of investments for UBS AM, and will be based in Zurich. Waverton makes a raft of hires amid expansion plans Gill said: "As a leading global asset manager, we have a critical role to play, both in providing our clients ...

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