Quilter Cheviot has announced the appointment of Nick Wood as its new head of regional offices.

Wood has been with Quilter Cheviot since 2012, serving as the head of investment fund research, where he has curated the firm’s fund research team and implemented a ‘robust’ fund selection process. As head of regional offices, Wood will be responsible for developing and maintaining the business plan for the regional private client investment management teams. He will also sit on the Quilter Cheviot Executive Committee. Subject to regulatory approval, Wood will begin his role as head of regional offices on 1 January 2025. Wood and Richard Thorn, who is stepping down from the role after nearly 40 years at Quilter Cheviot, will work together to ensure a smooth transition period until the end of Q1 2025, when Thorn will retire from the business.

Wealth management firm Evelyn Partners has appointed Mimi Corden-Lloyd as associate director in its London team.

Corden-Lloyd joins the firm from Coutts private bank, having spent nearly two years at the bank, most recently as associate director in the sports, media and entertainment wealth management team. She will work from Evelyn Partners’ Gresham Street offices as part of the 65-person financial planning team in London. “With Mimi’s experience as a private banker and wealth manager specialising in sport and media clients, we are delighted to add her expertise in bespoke financial planning to benefit Evelyn Partners' diverse clientele,” said Evelyn Partners chief financial planning director, Emma Sterland. “As Evelyn Partners evolves into a pure-play wealth management firm, Mimi’s appointment and several others in the pipeline attest to our renewed focus on developing the firm’s substantial financial planning and investment management teams.”

HSBC Global Private Banking has named Eric Ingber as its US head of ultra high net worth (HNW).

Based in New York, Ingber will look to develop relationships with US UHNW clients and entrepreneurs. In this role, he will collaborate closely with the US management team, the UHNW global, regional and family office coverage teams, as well as sales and strategy colleagues across the group. He will report to both London-based global head of UHNW, Caroline Kitidis, and New York-based head of wealth, premier and global private banking, US, Racquel Oden. Ingber has over two decades of wealth management experience, most recently serving as managing director and market executive of New York for Bank of America Private Bank. Previously, he was a wealth adviser at AW Jones and started his career at JP Morgan Private Bank.

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