Lombard Odier Investment Management (LOIM) has hired a sales director to promote its sustainable range to the UK wholesale market.
George Guest joins the group to build on relationships with UK discretionary clients including private banks and wealth managers with a focus on raising the profile of the firm’s sustainability and thematic product offering, which includes including Natural Capital, Climate Transition and the recently launched New Food Systems strategy.
He joins from Impax Asset Management and has also previously worked at Aberdeen Standard Investments.
In hie new role, Guest reports to Selina Tyler, head of UK wholesale for LOIM, who commented: “George’s experience and expertise in sustainable investing will be instrumental to our UK wholesale clients, as LOIM seeks to capture market opportunities from the environmental transition and provide investors with compelling sustainability-linked returns.”