Architas has hired a quartet of new staff for its distribution team from companies including Invesco, Close Brothers and Intelliflo.

The four appointments - Rebecca Conafray, Adrian Russell, Fillitsa Worsnip and Bobby Griffiths - will be part of the 14 strong UK distribution team who will help to promote the Architas range of risk profiled, income generating and specialist investment funds.

Ms Conafray has joined from Close Brothers, Mr Russell from Invesco Perpetual, Ms Worsnip from Intelliflo and Mr Griffiths from Intu Properties.

They will form part of the adviser sales and support team and will report directly to Ainara Perez, head of distribution desk.

The new appointments will also join the existing Architas investment development managers who are based across the UK.

Cedric Bucher, head of Architas UK funds, said: “These appointments represent part of our long term strategy, and commitment to the UK adviser market.

“Boosting the size of our distribution team will help us engage with advisers and assist our overall objective to make investing more accessible at all stages of people’s lives. In support of our move to more digital communication we know that advisers still value face to face contact from asset managers, which is why we continue to invest in our distribution team and ensure a number are based in regions right across the UK.”

Architas Multi-Manager Limited is an investment company that provides access to other investment managers’ services through a range of multi-manager solutions, including regulated collective investment schemes.