Channel Islands-based consultancy firm Altair Partners has added Guernsey-based Zoe Cousens as a client director.

Ms Cousens has more than 30 years' experience in financial services and has spent most of her career as an investment manager in Guernsey. In 2011, she moved into the local fiduciary sector as an investment consultant overseeing and monitoring financial assets and building investment solutions. In 2015, Ms Cousens relocated to Dubai where she established a company providing bespoke portfolio analysis to fiduciary companies and families.

Whilst in Dubai, Ms Cousens was a member of the UAE National Advisory Board of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and a non-executive director of a wealth management company based in the Dubai International Finance Centre and also acted as the Middle East representative for Guernsey Finance before returning to the island.

Ms Cousens said “I am delighted to join the pan-island team at Altair, a...