Hargreaves Lansdown appoints new Chief Investment Officer

Toby Vaughan has been appointed as Hargreaves Lansdown’s new chief investment officer. His role will involve overseeing the £8.6 billion fund management business of the company.

Prior to Brown Shipley, Toby was Head of Multi-Strategy Solutions at Santander Asset Management, Fund Manager at LV Asset Management, Director of Asset Allocation at F&C Asset Management, and former winner of the Investment Week Fund of Fund Manager of the year.

Toby’s responsibilities include defining the investment strategy for all HL Funds and strategies, setting the investment philosophy and process, governance and risk, and being accountable for performance and the delivery of good client outcomes.

“Toby is a highly experienced CIO and fund manager who joins from Brown Shipley (the UK arm of the Quintet Private Bank Group) where he has been responsible for the development of process, decision making and delivery of investment objectives on over €20bn of discretionary assets across the group product ranges. Toby has also been responsible for driving the creation of a centralised investment process, led transformation work and been heavily involved in projects to improve scalability. The HL fund management business sits at the very heart of the growth element of our strategy, providing a wide range of investment solutions to help clients at every stage of their investing journey. Toby shares our passion for client service and delivering great outcomes for them and we’re delighted he is joining the team.”

Ruchir Rodrigues, chief client and commercial officer, Hargreaves Lansdown.

“I’ve long been an admirer of HL and am delighted to be joining such a highly experienced team, and the market leader at such an exciting time.” 

Toby Vaughan, chief investment officer, Hargreaves Lansdown.