Polin leaves Aberdeen

Jonathan Polin, managing director at Aberdeen, resigned from the group on Tuesday to join HSBC Asset Management as head of intermediary business. HSBC recently parted company with its head of intermediary sales Mike Smith, who left to join Gartmore. Polin's role will be to rebuild the HSBC's intermediary sales team and re-establish it as a serious mainstream investment player in the eyes of intermediaries. It is a task made more difficult by the departure during the summer of five members of the UK and European equity teams to Cazenove, among them Tim Russell. Polin, until now managing...