Financial Planner Schroders Personal Wealth has recruited Ben Waterhouse from Barclays Wealth to be its new chief client officer.

Mr Waterhouse will be responsible for the firm’s growth strategy in regions across the UK and will also aim to improve and deliver SPW’s advice proposition to clients, SPW says. 

He joins from Barclays Wealth where he held the role of managing director and head of distribution, leading client-facing functions in the UK.  

Prior to Barclays he held a number of roles at Fidelity, most recently as global head of intermediary distribution for the digital wealth business and was involved in the development of a B2B Digital Wealth partnership proposition. 

He also spent a decade working at Legal and General. 

Mr Waterhouse will join SPW in the second quarter of 2022 and will report to Mark Duckworth, SPW chief executive. 

Schroders Personal Wealth is a joined Financial Planning venture launched by Schroders and Lloyds Bank.

Mr Duckworth said: “Ben has a strong track record and robust understanding of the global wealth management and investment industry. We believe his vast experience and skillset will be invaluable to our clients and the business as we continue with our ambition of growing the company to become one of the biggest Financial Planning businesses in the UK.  

“Ben is joining us at an exciting and pivotal time in our journey. As a business we have made huge progress over the last 12 months with our ambition of delivering more advice, to more clients than any other financial institution and we have achieved a great amount in a small period of time. We will continue with our ambitious plans this year and growth remains an important part of our agenda.  Ben will play a fundamental part in not only delivering, but improving, our advice proposition and making sure we continue to achieve our goal of giving more advice to more clients.”  

Mr Waterhouse said: “I’m excited to be joining SPW at such an important time for both clients and the business. The client-centric approach of the company and its beliefs around financial planning resonate strongly with me. I’m a firm believer that financial planning can help people achieve their goals.

 “I’m confident that the advisers at SPW have the expertise, knowledge and pride to devise a plan that will change a client’s life and am looking forward to working with them to achieve this together.”