Wealth manager and Financial Planner Evelyn Partners has appointed two new business development managers to help support the continued growth of its IFA business.

Ben Sims will cover central London while Joe Sheehan will look after key national accounts.  

Mr Sims has joined Evelyn from LGT Wealth Management where he spent nine years in the business development team working with financial advisers.

Mr Sheehan is an experienced relationship and development manager with more than 20 years asset management experience. Most recently he was regional investment director at BNY Investments where he worked with financial advisers and investment specialists in the Midlands and Wales.

Evelyn Partners now works with around 800 IFA firms across the country.

Craig Wright, head of UK IFA services at Evelyn Partners, said: “We are focused on bringing in experienced hires who have a great track record of working with IFAs.

“As part of our strategy of supporting the IFA market with MPS and DFM services we are continuing to recruit and will have further announcements in coming months.”

Evelyn Partners is a wealth management and professional services group, created following the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson in 2020. It has £62.2bn of assets under management (as at 30 June) and is also the seventh largest UK accountancy firm ranked by fee income (source: Accountancy Age 50+50 rankings, 2023).

The business has a network of offices across 29 towns and cities in the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands.