Amundi has hired Andy Wiggins as head of UK and Ireland institutional business. Reporting to Laurent Guillet, CEO of Amundi London branch and Pierre Cailleteau, global head of institutional and sovereign clients, Wiggins took up his position in December 2014.

Wiggins will be responsible for driving business development among major UK institutional investors. Based in London, he will work alongside Frederic Barthelemy, head of corporate relationships and Peter Brackett, head of global consultant relations.

Andy Wiggins joins Amundi from Allianz Global Investors where he held the role of head of UK institutional business development responsible for sales and client development teams and partnering the consultant relations team (2012-2014). Before this, Andy was head of UK institutional clients at Threadneedle Investments and director, client relations at AllianceBernstein.

Before moving into asset management, Wiggins spent a number of years managing sales and business development for consultants. He led business development initiatives at  development dimensions international from 1990-2000 before moving to Mercer in 2000 where he focused on expanding their pension fund client base.