Fixed income investment manager PIMCO is further strengthening its Swiss team in Zurich with several new investment professional appointments.

The European asset management platform of Mediolanum Banking Group, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), has appointed Barry Noonan as its new Chief Information Officer. Based in Dublin, he will report directly to CEO Furio Pietribiasi.

For investment managers to successfully adopt cutting-edge technology, there must be a clear, specific business problem to solve, and an organisational culture and multi-level senior sponsorship supportive of innovation, a new guide published by the Investment Association (IA) has concluded.

Carmignac has appointed Christof Kutscher as Director. 

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) has appointed Robin Vince as Vice Chair of BNY Mellon and CEO of Global Market Infrastructure, effective 1 October, 2020. 

Mercer has launched its UK Mercer DB Master Trust, which offers pension scheme sponsors the potential for enhanced governance and economies of scale to deliver better outcomes for members. 

Quorsus, a provider of consultancy services to financial institutions, has appointed former Markit executive, Jeff Gooch as its first non-executive director. 

Moneyhub Enterprise, an Open Finance data and intelligence platform, has formed a strategic partnership with SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC), a global provider of investment processing, management and operations solutions, to enhance SEI’s Institutional Group’s Master Trust proposition for its Defined Contribution (DC) scheme clients. 

Broadridge Financial Solutions is to provide Smith & Williamson Group, a financial and professional services firm in the UK and Ireland, with its Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) solution for proxy voting. 

Quaestio Capital Management (Quaestio), an Italian investment firm managing multi-asset, multi-manager portfolios for institutional clients, has awarded Impax Asset Management a EUR79 million segregated account mandate.