Wealth manager LGT Vestra had made two hires into its business development team, as it looks to expand despite the “extraordinary times”.

Robert Hardy and Victoria Barber will work with financial advisers in the UK and internationally. Both become business development directors.

Mr Hardy joins from Seven Investment Management (7IM) where he was head of intermediary sales and more recently director for strategic partners. He worked for 7IM for just over a decade. Prior to this, he was an international sales manager at HSBC Global Asset Management.

Ms Barber comes form Octopus Investments where she had worke...