Investment manager has bright future
Brooks Macdonald, an investment manager with more than £10.5 billion in funds under management, has appointed Jennifer Innes as an investment manager.
A recent graduate from the firm’s trainee investment manager scheme she joins the team of Robin McAdam, who heads up the group's Edinburgh office.
Brooks Macdonald’s investment manager training scheme dates back to the 1990s, and 39 of the group’s investment managers have come through its trainee scheme.
Brooks Macdonald currently has nine trainees across its regional network.
Mr McAdam, head of Brooks Macdonald’s Edinburgh office, said: “We’d like to congratulate Jennifer on becoming an investment manager. She has worked extremely hard throughout our training scheme. We are delighted that she is now a fully-fledged member of the team at our growing Edinburgh office.”
Ms Innes added: “I received tremendous support from the team throughout my training, and I am looking forward to helping the business grow by building relationships with independent financial advisers, accountants and solicitors, as well as charity clients.”
Board appointees at book trust
Scottish Book Trust has appointed four new members to its board of trustees. The national charity now has ten board members overseeing its work transforming lives through reading and writing.
The publically-funded body has named Fiona McLeod, Andy Marchant, James Saville and Hilde Watne Frydnes as its new trustees, saying that each brings extensive experience and accomplishments in their respective fields to their new roles in the charity’s governance.
Ms McLeod is a former MSP and was the acting Minister for Children and Young People 2014 to 2015 so will be familiar to Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug initiative, which gifts books to every child from birth to early primary school.
Mr Marchant is a freelance consultant working with financial services companies; Mr Saville is director of people, operations and systems at the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID); and Ms Watne Frydnes is a Norwegian native who brings a range of digital experience from local and global business success stories to Scottish Book Trust.
Law at Work makes round of promotions
Following a strong start to the financial year, employment law and health and safety consultant Law At Work has made five promotions.
Former deputy director of legal services, Margaret Anne Clark has become head of the employment law department overseeing a team of 12 highly trained solicitors across the firm’s Edinburgh and Glasgow offices.
Senior employment solicitor Daniel Gorry has been promoted to deputy director of legal services.
Elsewhere, the company’s client management division will now be led by Steven Smith who joined the firm in 2010 as operations manager.
In addition to these senior promotions, Law At Work has offered full time positons to Paman Singh and Kirstie Beattie, who have recently completed their traineeships with the firm.
The promotions follow a period of significant investment for the company; including a rebrand and new website that features an enhanced client support area for all three strands of employee relations support - employment law, HR (including in-house support) and health and safety.
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