Rothesay Life has appointed Richard Berliand, Glenn Earle, Naguib Kheraj and Raymond King as non-executive directors and Andrew Stoker as an executive director.

Stoker joined Rothesay Life as the chief financial officer in 2014 and responsibility for finance, risk and actuarial functions. He was previously partner at EY’s risk and actuarial practice and prior to that was chief actuary at Lucinda plc.

Berliand is a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse AG and its Eurex subsidiaries. He is also on the board of Mako Europe, certain fund entities in the Renshaw Bay fund group and chairman of ITRS Global Holdings. He is a member of the FCA Regulatory Decisions Committee and an advisor to the CFTC.

Earle is a non-executive director of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. and a board member and trustee of the Royal National Theatre and Teach First. In 2011, he retired as managing director and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs International, where he also co-chaired the firm’s global capital and commitments committees.

Kheraj is a senior advisor to the Aga Khan Development Network and serves on the boards of various entities within the network. He is also a non-executive director of Standard Chartered and a member of the investment committee of Wellcome Trust. He began his career at Salomon Brothers and went on to hold a number of senior positions at leading financial institutions.

King is currently a non-executive director and chairman of the audit and risk committees at Saga plc and of the audit committee at Infinis Energy plc. He is also a reporting panel member at the CMA and a member of the FRC’s Audit and Assurance Council. Previously he was CEO and Group Finance Director of BUPA and earlier in his career held senior management roles at Parity Group plc, Diageo/Guinness plc, Southern Water plc and ICI plc.

- SKAGEN has appointed Tomas Johansson as a portfolio manager in the global team. He starts on 1 August 2015 and will report to lead portfolio manager Knut Gezelius.

Johansson previously worked for the Swedish arm of Cevian Capital, one of Europe’s largest activist fund managers with over €10bn in assets under management. In this role, he was part of a team overseeing a concentrated equities portfolio which sought to unlock potential value through active ownership.

- Aviva Investors has appointed Simon Young as UK equities fund manager, who is based in London and reports to head of UK equities Trevor Green. In this new role, he will work on Aviva Investors’ institutional UK equity fund and assist on the £992m retail UK equity income fund.

Young joins from BlackRock, where he was UK equities fund manager, managing over £1bn in core UK equity and income mandates for a range of institutional, charity and fiduciary clients. He began his investment career at BlackRock in 1997 and as part of his fund management duties had analyst responsibilities across a broad spectrum of sectors.

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