AXA Life Invest expands UK team to drive drawdown business

Hires to be advisers' first point of contact

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AXA Life Invest has hired a regional sales manager and eight retirement specialists to be advisers' first point of contact for the firm's drawdown products.

Robert Higginbotham joins AXA Life Invest as regional sales manager from Royal London Pensions. He will oversee engagement with professional financial advisers in central regions including Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia and the South East. Meanwhile, Donovan Davey, Rob Fairbrother, Neville Hutchinson, Chetan Mistry, Matt Nelson and Neill Timbrell have also joined as senior retirement specialists from outside the company. Prior to joining AXA Life Invest, Fairbrother worked at Liverpool Victoria; Hutchinson worked as an independent account manager at Zurich Insurance; Mistry joined f...

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