Appointments

SWITZERLAND - Investec Asset Management has hired Reinhard Müller from Pioneer as a sales director to boost its institutional distribution in Switzerland.

NORWAY - Bengt Enge, the investment chief at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), has stepped down.

GLOBAL/UK - Fidelity International has appointed Chris McNickle as global head of institutional.

Fidelity International has appointed Chris McNickle as global head of institutional.

Aegon UK chief executive Otto Thoresen has been appointed as director general of the ABI and will take up his new role on April 4.

SOUTH AFRICA - Towers Watson has doubled its stake in South African actuarial and employee benefits firm Fifth Quadrant and appointed Nigel Biggs as managing consultant in the country.

GLOBAL - AXA IM, Goldman, CalPERS, Mercer, PineBridge

US - Goldman Sachs managing director, head of investment strategy Kurt Winkelmann has joined MSCI as managing director and head of risk & analytical research.

Mercer has confirmed the appointment of Emma Douglas as leader of its workplace savings group.

US - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has appointed fund executive Larry Jensen to the new role of chief risk officer.