Bluefin Corporate Consulting has appointed Albert Küller and Maria Nazarova-Doyleto to its investment team to meet growing client demand for its services. Küller has joined as an investment consultant and joins from the PPF. Prior to this, he worked at McGraw Hill and Bloomberg. Nazarova-Doyleto joins as a transition analyst having previously worked at PromSvyazCapital, a Moscow-based investment management company.

LV= has appointed Craig McVoy as head of customer experience for its retirement solutions business. McVoy will be responsible for leading the retirement solutions customer service teams and identifying ways to enhance service delivery to advisers and customers. He has over a decade of experience of leading customer services teams, including eight years at Privilege Insurance.

Old Mutual Wealth Management has announced the appointment of Jeremy Charles as chief operating officer (COO) to help drive growth within the business. He will take up his new role on 9 July and will responsible for aligning all the operations and technology functions across the Wealth Management businesses and ensuring the business has a strong operational platform.

Punter Southall has strengthened its DC consulting business with the recruitment of a principal and three senior consultants. Jon Webster joins as a principal and brings more than 25 years of advising employers on benefit provision, together with specialist knowledge of defined contribution and risk benefit consulting. Andrew Constantinou brings 25 years of industry experience and joins as a senior consultant having previously worked at Prudential and Hymans Robertson. Darren Hedgley also joins as a senior consultant having previously worked with Bluefin, Aon and Devon County Council. Ian Dearnley starts as a senior consultant after a 24-year career largely spent with Aon.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has strengthened its global client management team with the appointment of Peter Marsland as client director. Marsland will have specific responsibility for providing specialist support for pension fund clients for which SWIP is providing de-risking solutions. He joins SWIP from Insight Investment where he was responsible for managing a number of key accounts for a client base principally made up of segregated UK pension schemes.

Man Group has announced the appointment of Judy Saunders as a senior advisor on a consultancy basis to its UK institutional team. She joins having spent seven years as chief investment officer (CIO) at the West Midlands Pension Fund.

Just Retirement has announced the appointment of Alex Duncan as chief risk officer. He joins from Old Mutual where he worked as head of UK acquisitions, head of corporate finance and development.

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