Australian ETF manager BetaShares has appointed former BlackRock Vice Chairman, Blake Grossman, as a non-executive director.

Alternative investment manager AXS Investments has appointed ETF and fund industry pioneer Ben Fulton as managing director for global business development.

It’s been all change at DWS with the announcement of Manooj Mistry’s recent move from his role as global head of Index Investing at DWS to join European white labeller HANetf. 

HSBC Asset Management has appointed Dominic Clabby as Head of ETF Strategy.

European gold ETC champions WisdomTree, with USD23.9 billion in assets in commodities, and USD15.8 billion specifically in gold, has hired the former Institutional Relationship Manager covering EMEA from the World Gold Council, Nilesh Parmar, as Director of UK Institutional Sales, in a move that reflects the importance of both gold and the European institutional investor audience for the firm.    

WisdomTree, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) and exchange-traded product (ETP) sponsor, has appointed of Nilesh Parmar as Director of UK Institutional Sales.

Europe’s first and only white labeller, HANetf, is having quite the year, having hit well over USD2 billion in assets on the back of bitcoin and cannabis. Hector McNeil (pictured), co-founder and co-CEO of the firm has now announced that they have hired Manooj Mistry, former head of Index Investing at DWS.

Decama Capital Ltd, an Israeli investment company headquartered in the UK and listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, has appointed Professor Lior Elbaz as Chief Development Officer. 

Aviva Investors has made two hires to its Infrastructure Equity team – Charles Herriott as Associate Director and Andrea Pelizzari as Associate.

December saw thematic ETF provider Global X ETFs announce that it was to open in Europe, with Rob Oliver from JP Morgan as Head of Business Development for Global X ETFs in Europe and Morgane Delledonne (pictured) from BMO Global Asset Management, as Director of Research.