Union Bancaire Privée has announced that it has hired Rob Jones as Head of its new European Equities team, which will be based in London. He will take up the position on 1 November.

Prior to joining UBP, Jones was at Threadneedle, where he spent a total of 14 years managing UK and then pan-European equity portfolios. He started out his career by spending four years as a UK equity analyst.

"We are delighted that Rob is joining us" said Richard Wohanka, CEO of Asset Management at UBP. "An allocation to European equities forms the core of many of our clients' portfolios, and the recruitment of a top-quality, in-house team to manage this asset class has long been part of our growth plans. Rob's high-conviction, bottom-up approach to equity investing fits in well with UBP Asset Management's ethos and I am confident that he can replicate his past successes elsewhere at UBP."