She joins the wealth manager from Brown Shipley where she was investment director.

Prior to Brown Shipley, Ms Kelemen spent 7 years at Coutts including as a director on the investment management team where she managed multi-asset advisory and discretionary portolios.

M&G Wealth has appointed her to lead the development and management of discretionary investment solutions, including model portfolio services.

Ms Kelemen said: “We are living in a time of incredible change and uncertainty - but also opportunity. Providing the right investment solutions and experiences to our customers in a robust and planet-friendly way has never been more important.

“Companies that want to be a trusted partner for investment solutions need to be innovative, financially capable, and completely focused on their customers. I firmly believe that M&G Wealth has these attributes and I’m excited to join the team.”

David Montgomery, managing director at M&G Wealth said the wealth manager aims to help close the advice gap and that hiring the right people is integral to achieving this aim.

M&G has already invested significant sums in M&G Wealth which in August acquired financial advisory group Sandringham Financial Partners for an undisclosed sum. The deal added £2.5 billion of assets under advice to M&G as well as 180 Sandringham advising partners and more than 10,000 individual clients. 

M&G Wealth was formed in September 2020 to expand M&G's interests in the advice and platform sector.