Actuary joins team at Barrie & Hibbert

BARRIE & Hibbert, the Edinburgh-based financial risk modelling firm, has named Celene Lee as its head of pensions.

Lee joins the firm from Hewitt Associates, where she was a senior consulting actuary.

Chief executive Andy Frepp says: "I am confident that Celene's experience in advising pension schemes will be of great benefit to Barrie & Hibbert and our clients."

Also on the move is Seiichi Fukuyama, who has joined Standard Life Investments (SLI) to take up the newly-created post of chairman of its Asian operations.

Part of the new role for Fukuyama, who joins after 20 years with BlackRock, will be to develop SLI's recently announced strategic alliance with Chuo Mitsui Asset Trust and Banking in Japan.

SLI chief executive Keith Skeoch says: "I am delighted that we have been able to acquire the services of someone of Seiichi Fukuyama's standing to fill this strategically important role.

"Seiichi's wealth of experience and expertise within the Asian, and specifically the Japanese, markets makes him a very valuable addition to SLI's team as we seek to develop our activities in the region." Meanwhile, Garry Mcluckie has left Standard Life to become Alliance Trust Saving's head of share dealing.

Darrin Nightingale, the firm's product and marketing director, said: "Garry is an extremely talented and experienced individual who I am very pleased to welcome to the team."

Someone else who is settling into a new role is Craig Mackenzie, who has been appointed as Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's (Swip's) head of sustainability.

Mackenzie joins Swip from Edinburgh University's business school, where he was director of the Centre for Business and Climate Change. Prior to this, he established the Centre for Ethics in Public Policy and Corporate Governance.

Before joining Edinburgh University, he spent ten years working in the investment management arena and set up and managed governance and sustainable research functions at Insight and Friends Ivory and Sime.