KPMG expands asset management team with ex-JPMAM hire

Newly created client-side role

KPMG has appointed Neil Macdonald to the newly created role of managing director in its asset management practice, where he will be responsible for developing a number of the firm's major global accounts.

Macdonald, who most recently served as a senior business manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, will be based in London and report to partner and head of the asset management consulting team Tim West. Quick-fire interview with KPMG's Ian Smith: Don't expect a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations West said: "The asset management sector is firmly under the spotlight of regulators and consumers alike. "We are seeing an increasing number of clients reconsider their offerings as technology, regulation and Brexit cause them to reconsider existing business models. "Neil joins KPMG with...