Simone Westerfeld will join Oddo BHF on 1 June 2026 in the newly created role of deputy chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approval in France and Germany. She is also due to become a member of the management board of Oddo BHF SE in Frankfurt and of the executive committee of Oddo BHF SCA in Paris. The appointment forms part of a multi-year growth and transformation plan at the Franco-German banking group.
Westerfeld previously served as chief operating officer at UBS. She will work with Oddo’s general management committee to develop a growth strategy centred on innovation and new technologies, organised around client segments rather than product silos. These include private clients, family-owned businesses, foundations, family offices, corporate decision-makers, institutional investors and wealth advisers with France, Germany and Switzerland as its core markets.
CSSF
The Luxembourg government has appointed of Pascale Toussing as director of the financial markets supervisor CSSF, replacing Françoise Kauthen on the supervisory authority’s management committee as her term expires. The appointment marks Toussing’s return to a senior public role. She is appointed for a five-year term.
Toussing has previously served as adviser to the minister of Finance, Gilles Roth, since June 2024. She previously led the Administration des contributions directes, Luxembourg’s direct tax authority responsible for income, corporate and wealth taxation, from 2017 until the end of 2023. She was removed from that role by the then finance minister, Yuriko Backes, amid controversy over management practices and delays in the authority’s digitalisation programme.
Toussing was previously a member of the CSSF board and will now join its executive committee, which also includes Jean-Pierre Faber, Marco Zwick and Claude Wampach. The CSSF is led by chief executive Claude Marx, whose mandate is due for renewal in the coming weeks.
Ogier Global
Ogier Global has appointed Michaël Goosse as head of fund administration in Luxembourg, as the firm continues to expand its European fund services business. Goosse brings more than twenty years of experience in corporate and fund administration in Luxembourg, with a focus on international clients in the corporate and private equity sectors.
The appointment comes as Ogier Global, the corporate and fiduciary services arm of Ogier, scales up its fund administration activities. Its fund administration teams now number around 60 staff. Over the past two years, the firm has obtained a fund licence from Luxembourg’s CSSF and a separate fund licence from the Central Bank of Ireland.
Partners Group
Partners Group has appointed Joshua Hartz as partner and global head of special opportunities, as the firm launches a dedicated strategy focused on flexible capital solutions across private markets. Hartz joins from Bain Capital and will split his time between Zug and Sydney, building a global investment team across the US, Europe and Asia.
The move formalises an area where Partners Group has invested opportunistically in the past, reflecting what the firm sees as a growing pipeline of transactions linked to economic transformation and market dislocation. The launch marks the latest expansion of the firm’s multi-strategy offering, which manages more than 185 billion dollars in assets globally.
Apollo
Véronique Fournier has been appointed partner at Apollo Global Management, where she has worked since 2022 as head of EMEA for Global Wealth. She will continue in that role from Zurich, following earlier postings in Geneva and London. The appointment underscores Apollo’s focus on expanding its wealth management business across Europe.
FundSight
Astrid der Weduwe has joined FundSight as business development director. FundSight is an independent Luxembourg-based asset manager with more than 30 billion euro in assets under management. In her new role, der Weduwe will support the firm’s next phase of growth, with a focus on accelerating expansion and strengthening its market position. She previously worked at Kieger Capital Partners and spent several years at Nordea Asset Management in Luxembourg.
Allianz Partners
Allianz Partners has made four senior appointments within its health line of business. Giovanni di Meo has been named head of commercial, health and benefits, with global responsibility for sales strategy across employee benefits, corporate IPMI and governmental segments. Liam Hughes joins as head of sales Europe, health and benefits, overseeing European sales and market expansion. Carl Downham has been appointed head of sales Middle East and Africa, health and benefits, while Elke De Cauwer becomes head of sales steering, transformation and performance, leading global planning and performance management across the health business.
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