Asset manager Aviva Investors appointed a new head of marketing Asia Pacific, finews.asia can exclusively reveal.

Senior investment and financial services marketing professional Peggy Wu is set to join Aviva Investors as head of Marketing Asia Pacific. She will take up her new position on 25 October and will be based in Singapore.

In her previous role Wu was head of Marketing, Southeast Asia, Janus Henderson Investors. Prior to the recent merger she was head of Marketing, Greater China and Southeast Asia at Henderson Global Investors, she joined Henderson in July 2014.

Before moving to Singapore Wu was product manager, Multi-Asset and Alternatives at Mellon Capital in San Francisco and prior to that was director of Digital Marketing at Fidelity Investments in Boston. Wu also worked for J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong between 1994 and 1998.