Brooks Macdonald fund sales head joins Morningstar

Brooks Macdonald's Mark Watson has joined Morningstar as director of UK intermediary sales.

Watson will support the group's discretionary managed portfolio services, which was launched for the UK advisory market in May 2013. He was previously head of sales for Brooks Macdonald's funds business and has also worked for Zurich Intermediary Group, held a Dubai-based role for Barclays, and advised on investment portfolios for high net worth individuals for SHUAA Capital. He will report to Paul Malone, vice president of sales at Morningstar UK, who said: "Watson's experience both in the fund management industry and as a financial adviser make him the ideal candidate to help us exp...