Standard Life Investments hires GSAM sales exec

Standard Life Investments has hired a Asia wholesale distribution executive from Goldman Sachs Asset Management in a newly created role as it steps up efforts to promote its multi-asset capabilities in the region. Virginia Devereux Wong, who spent nearly four years at GSAM, joined SLI in Hong Kong earlier this month. She will meet distributors to boost the firm’s presence on behalf of the funds subsidiary of UK insurer Standard Life. At GSAM, Wong was responsible for business de…