Investec Wealth & Investment hires senior trio from Julius Baer

Joining London team

Tom Eckett
clock • 1 min read

Investec Wealth & Investment (IW&I) has hired three senior investment directors from Julius Baer Wealth Management to join its London-based team.

Greg Waunford-Brown, Philip Maher and Gideon Wright joined Julius Baer back in 2014 after the firm's acquisition of Merrill Lynch International Wealth Management (IWM). Prior to Julius Baer, Waunford-Brown was senior vice president at Merrill Lynch IWM, where he moved after his previous firm NatWest was acquired by RBS in 2000. Investec W&I appoints Nicholas Jones as Birmingham office head Maher started his career at Barclays, where he spent 19 years in its wealth division before joining Merrill Lynch IWM in 2007 and becoming managing director in 2013. Wright began his career at...

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