• Claire Glennon has joined Schroders in its UK & Ireland Institutional Business Development team.

She joins from Baring Asset Management where she was institutional relationship director, responsible for managing the relationships with both corporate and local government defined contribution and defined benefit clients. Glennon joined Barings in 2002.

• The Financial Reporting Council has appointed Chris Hodge as executive director of strategy.

Hodge, currently director corporate governance, will have overall responsibility for the strategic direction and public perception of the FRC in the UK and internationally. He joined the FRC in 2004.

• Keith Webster has re-joined CMS in London as a partner in the pensions team, effective 1 January 2014.

Webster originally joined CMS in 1996 as a trainee, becoming a partner in 2004. He left the firm in 2011 to join Osborne Clarke.

• Law firm Hill Dickinson has announced the appointment of two solicitors within its employment and pensions team.

Paula Warnock has been promoted to associate acting on behalf of clients within the firm’s Manchester and Sheffield offices, and Clare Edwards has been named assistant solicitor working for a number of national and international companies in areas including retail, sport, social housing and education.

• Franklin Templeton Investments has announced Peter Vincent has been appointed head of alternatives sales, Europe.

Vincent previously worked at Fauchier Partners for seven years where he was responsible for institutional business development and client relations in the UK and Ireland. He also held previous roles at Swiss Re, UFJ International and Bankers Trust.

In his new London-based role Vincent is responsible for new business development of the group’s alternative products in Europe.

• The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association, has announced that Jack Inglis will be the new CEO of the organisation.

Inglis joins from Barclays where he was a member of the Global Executive Committee for Prime Services and was previously CEO of Ferox Capital between 2007 and 2010. He also spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley where he was co-head of European Prime Brokerage from 2003-2007.

The appointment follows the announcement in June that current CEO Andrew Baker was stepping down. Baker had been CEO since the beginning of 2009, having previously been deputy CEO since 2007. Inglis will start in the role at the beginning of 2014, with Baker remaining to oversee the handover until then.

• Eaton Vance Management (International) has announced the appointment of Hattie Burgess Franklin as institutional business development director for the UK.

Franklin is responsible for business development and management of key institutional relationships in the UK, reporting to Duncan Hodnett, director of institutional business development, Europe. She will be involved in all aspects of UK sales and marketing, as well as client service support for existing and new clients. Franklin is also responsible for relationship building within the UK investment consultancies and independent trustee organisations.

She has over 10 years of previous experience within the UK Institutional market, having held similar roles at Hermes Investment Management and Governance for Owners.

• Vanguard Asset Management has appointed Steve Charlton as defined contribution (DC) proposition manager for Europe, effective immediately. In his new role, Charlton will build and evolve Vanguard's DC proposition in markets across Europe with a particular focus on the UK.

Charlton has over 20 years' experience in the UK pensions industry, with particular expertise in defined contribution plans. He joins from Mercer where he was most recently a principal within Mercer's DC Leadership Team.
Prior to Mercer, he spent periods of time with consulting firms Punter Southall and Towers Perrin.

• IFM Investors has made Lucy Willsher an associate in its Debt Investments team in Europe.

Based in London and reporting to David Cooper, executive director, Debt Investments, Willsher will be responsible for originating, executing and managing infrastructure debt investments for the firm’s institutional investors in Europe.

Lucy joins IFM Investors from SMBC Europe where she was a manager in the infrastructure finance team from July 2012. Prior to this she was a manager at West LB for two years.

• BlackRock has appointed Rachel Lord as head of iShares in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). She replaces Joe Linhares, who, after three years leading the business in Europe, will return to the US to assume a new role as global head of BlackRock’s platinum client programme, which coordinates all the firm’s activities with its largest retail distribution partners globally.

Lord joins the firm from Citigroup, where she was global head of corporate equity derivatives. She brings with her more than 20 years of in-depth experience in a broad range of sell-side roles and deep experience managing teams in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Prior to joining Citi in 2009, Lord spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of senior roles, most recently as head of corporate equity derivatives, EMEA & APAC. Based in London, she will report to Mark Wiedman, global head of iShares. Lord will join iShares’ Global and EMEA Executive Committees, as well as BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee.

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